Many organizations around the world are taking part in helping those cancer patients. Most organizations are from the Western countries. In Malaysia, there are lesser organizations taking part. Most organizations that took part are international organizations. Cancer imposes heavy economic burdens on both patients and their families. For many people, a portion of medical expenses is paid by their health insurance plan. For individuals who do not have health insurance or who need financial assistance to cover health care costs, resources are available, including Government-sponsored programs and services supported by voluntary organizations.
American Cancer Society (ACS)
American Cancer Society (ACS) is the "nationwide community-based voluntary health organization" dedicated, in their own words, "to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service."
The society is organized into twelve geographical divisions of both medical and lay volunteers operating in more than 900 offices throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Its home office is located in the American Cancer Society Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
The society’s allocation of funds for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2010 lists 72% of funds for Program Services (Patient Support 28%, Research 16%, Prevention 16%, Detection and Treatment 12%). The remaining 28% are allocated for supporting services (Fundraising 21%, and Management, General administration 7%) meeting the Better Business Bureau's Standards for Charity Accountability (At least 65% to program services and no more than 35% to overhead and fundraising expenses).
From the society, the public can donate some fund to help the patients not only those with throat cancer but also patients with other cancer diseases. This organization overall helps all the patients with cancer diseases through financial aid. This is because most of the costs required for treatments of cancer are expensive and not everyone afford to bear the costs by themselves. Through this society people can have some financial aid and reduce their burden to pay the treatment fees.
Cancer Patients Aid Association
This association is established in the year 1969. CPAA has a tradition of untiring service to needy cancer patients from all over India, and even neighbouring Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan. CPAA is an empathetic, reassuring, non-medical presence that has supported the treatment and overall needs of more than 300,000 cancer patients.
Every cancer patient has a right to the full range of treatment, and there are over 75 employees and over 60 associated doctors to help the patients. From a well-meaning group of individuals who had laudable intentions but could only afford the distribution of fruits and newspapers, to a multi-faceted organization helping patients cope with every aspect of cancer, CPAA has grown exponentially in scope, size and influence.
Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA) is a registered charitable non-governmental organisation (NGO) working towards the Total Management of Cancer as a disease, which includes spreading awareness on the dangers inherent in accepted social practices to the public such as chewing of tobacco, early marriage, and multiple pregnancies which approximately causes 70% of cancers in India. Besides that, initiating steps for the early detection of cancer since treatment at this stage leads to a cure in a majority of cases. To provide complete assistance to cancer patients beyond that given by the medical profession, that is, taking a holistic approach, not attacking the malignancy in isolation.
Cancer Care
Cancer Care is a national non profit agency that offers free support, information, financial assistance, and practical help to people with cancer. Services are provided by oncology social workers and are available in person, over the telephone, and through the agency's Web site. Cancer Care's reach also extends to professionals - providing education, information, and assistance. A section of the Cancer Care Web site and some publications are available in Spanish, and staff can respond to calls and e-mails in Spanish.
Cancer Care also operates the AVONCares Program for Medically Underserved Women, which provides financial assistance to low-income, under- and uninsured, underserved women throughout the country who need supportive services (transportation, child care, and home care) related to the treatment of breast and cervical cancers.
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The services provided are counselling where the staff at the centre will help the patients and their family members how to manage their emotion and practical challenges of cancer. Besides that, there are also support groups that allow a patient to communicate with those who are in the same condition as the patient to share their experience and information. This centre also published some written materials written by experts. The materials published are useful and up to date information about a wide range of cancer including throat cancer. There are also financial aids and community programs which allows the patients to communicate with each other.
Mouth Cancer Foundation
The Mouth Cancer Foundation is established in June 2004 to be a professional support organization solely dedicated to supporting people with mouth, throat and other head & neck cancer face the crisis of cancer. The foundation gets its charitable status in May 2005.
During the past three years, the MCF website has become an important source of information for oral and head and neck cancer patients who are trying to gain a better understanding of their illness and their lives. The Mouth Cancer Foundation web site aims to help patients, carers and health professionals find free information on mouth cancers easily. It provides direct links to the relevant sections of existing cancer sites and includes patient experiences as well as an online support group.
This foundation creates a website which allows the public to have the information related to cancer such as mouth cancer, throat cancer and neck cancer. Besides that, the public\c also can donate through online or contact the foundation to donate some money to help those in need. There are also many links to the blogs which are written by the cancer patients. Everyone can read and share their experiences with the patients or give some moral support to them in order for them to heal up.
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of 11 agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NCI coordinates the U.S. National Cancer Program and conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other activities related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer; the supportive care of cancer patients and their families; and cancer survivorship. As of July 2010, the current director of the NCI is Dr. Harold Varmus.
The National Cancer Institute has large intramural research programs in Bethesda, Maryland and NCI-Frederick at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland. In addition, the NCI funds cancer researchers around the United States.
This institute helps by doing research and help to cure cancer. Many latest news and newsletter is published by them to let the public know and have the knowledge of the different types of cancer. With this action, the public can know the symptoms of cancer and they can have a treatment earlier of body check up before the cancer disease become more serious.
International Oral Cancer Association
The international oral cancer association is an association to help those people with throat and oral cancer. The public can donate some fund to the association to help those in need and the patients can share their experience and story there. Besides that, the association also provides information about the information about throat and oral cancer. On the other hand, the public can read the blogs wrote by cancer patients and help them morally or by helping them in financial aid.
Oral Cancer Foundation
The Oral Cancer Foundation is a national public service, non-profit entity designed to reduce suffering and save lives through prevention, education, research, advocacy, and patient support activities. Oral cancer is the largest group of those cancers which fall into the head and neck cancer category. Common names for it include such things as mouth cancer, tongue cancer, tonsil cancer, and throat cancer. Approximately 37,000 people in the US will be newly diagnosed with oral cancer in 2010. This includes those cancers that occur in the mouth itself, in the very back of the mouth known as the oropharynx, and on the exterior lip of the mouth. This is the fifth year in a row in which there has been an increase in the rate of occurrence of oral cancers, in 2007 there was a major jump of over 11% in that single year.
Many think that this is a rare cancer, mouth cancer will be newly diagnosed in about 100 new individuals each day in the US alone, and a person dies from oral cancer every hour of every day. This foundation will provides information about the rates of occurrence, risk factors which lead to oral cancer, signs and symptoms, treatments, current research, complications of treatment, nutrition, related clinical trials, and current oral cancer related news. There is also information about oral cancer and treatment institutions.
Patients can post about how they fight with cancers and their families can gain insights and inspiration from those who have been there for them. Besides that, those patients that cannot afford to pay the costs for treatment can ask for some help from this foundation. The public also can help those patients by giving some fund to them.
American Head and Neck Society
On May 13, 1998, The American Head and Neck Society (AHNS) became the single largest organization in North America for the advancement of research and education in head and neck oncology. The merger of two societies, the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery and the Society of Head and Neck Surgeons, formed the American Head and Neck Society.
The contributions is made by the two societies forming the AHNS are significant in the history of surgery in the United States. Dr. Hayes Martin conceived the Society of Head and Neck Surgeons in 1954, a surgeon considered by many to be the "father of modern head and neck tumor surgery." The purpose of the society was to exchange and advance the scientific knowledge relevant to the surgery of head and neck tumors (exclusive of brain surgery) with an emphasis on cancer of the head and neck. Two years later, The American Society for Head and Neck Surgery was organized with the goal to "facilitate and advance knowledge relevant to surgical treatment of diseases of the head and neck, including reconstruction and rehabilitation; promote advancement of the highest professional and ethical standards as they pertain to the practice of major head and neck surgery; and to honor those who have made major contributions in the field of head and neck surgery, or have aided in its advancement".
World Health Organization
World Health Organization is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
In the 21st century, health is a shared responsibility, involving equitable access to essential care and collective defence against transnational threats. WHO provides leadership on matters critical to health and engaging in partnerships where joint action is needed, shapes the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge, setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their implementation, articulating ethical and evidence-based policy options, providing technical support, catalysing change, and building sustainable institutional capacity and monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends.
