Rockland County Cancer Institute Where to get Screened.
The Rockland County Cancer Institute is an education, outreach and referral program.
Cancer, the Flu, and You: What Cancer Patients and Survivors Should Know About the Flu - Living with cancer increases your risk for complications from the flu. If you have cancer now or have had cancer in the past, you are at higher risk for complications from both seasonal and 2009 H1N1 flu (also called influenza or "swine flu"), including hospitalization and death. To help prepare you for the flu this season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) answers some of your most important questions about special considerations for cancer patients and survivors for seasonal flu and 2009 H1N1 flu. Click here for more information.
Did you know that certain types of cancer and certain medications used to treat cancer can increase the risk of osteoporosis? Click here for more information about keeping your bones strong during and after cancer treatment.
Cancer Rates Continue to Decrease - According to a new report from the nation's leading health and cancer organizations, rates of getting cancer and dying from cancer declined in the most recent time period for men and women overall and for most racial and ethnic populations in the United States. Click here for more information.
