More Informed Choices. Credible Online Sources With No Agenda.
Research and Education on Cancer Treatment Options
Serving Patients, Caregivers and Medical Professionals Since 2001
The YCS Mission
We provide a quality web resource for patients to use free of charge. This page will save you time and direct you to the best information sources we know of. You can find accurate and up-to-date information on your type of cancer, the standard treatment options, as well as newly emerging cancer treatments and clinical trials.
We are NOT physicians and do not diagnose or make ANY medical recommendations.
We simply coach you on how to talk to doctors, help you frame the right questions to ask at each stage of treatment, and understand the current medical information that is most relevant to your ongoing decision-making. We can sometimes refer you to doctors and/or Comprehensive Cancer Treatment Centers for the best possible care. Ultimately it is your personal responsibility to learn what you can and then make your own treatment decisions in partnership with your physician(s). We have some great success stories, especially about those who contact us as soon as possible after diagnosis. Those who wait too long usually have tougher decisions, more harsh treatment and more poor outcomes. Please don't wait.
Why We Started YCS
Diane Bradford started YCS after spending months searching online and
in Email groups with other leukemia patients and their advocates, hoping
to find a way to keep her husband, Richard, alive. Richard was diagnosed
with a deadly type of leukemia in 1997. A stem-cell transplant (from
his own remaining healthy stem cells) yielded many precious months,
but by 1999 he had no more standard treatment options available and
his cancer returned. There were clinical trials for a new drug, then
called STI-571, in the US, but Richard did not qualify for them. Then
Diane found a clinical trial at a medical center in Newcastle, England,
for which he was accepted. This drug has saved her husband's life. (It
is now FDA-approved and sold in the U.S. as Gleevec. If you want to
know more about the story of this miracle drug, visit www.newcmldrug.com).
After this 5 year treatment experience, many of Diane's friends insisted
that she had learned so much about cancer treatments, online searching and
medical decision-making, that she should put this knowledge to good use to
help other cancer patients.
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