TOOLS
AND TIPS
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Printable
Guides & Tools |
Updated |
Description |
Blood draws:
tips for
minimizing pain PDF
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For
anyone to view, print and distribute
Brochure:
A patient's guide to minimizing discomfort from IV and
injections Updated August 2007 |
Lab Tracker
Excel
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For
patients and caregivers
Spreadsheet: Lets you record, compare, and
chart labs results. Requires Microsoft Excel. |
Safety:
Keeping Your Family Safe From Medical Errors PDF
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For
anyone to view, print and distribute
Brochure:
A patient's guide to minimizing risk from medical errors.
Updated August 2007
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Safety:
Medication
Checklist PDF
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2/2012 |
Helps you to organize your
medications - includes tips for avoiding medication errors -
print and copy as desired. Create a binder to store them
if more than one is needed. |
Peripheral
Blood Reference Range Chart (CBC) PDF
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For
patients and caregivers
Chart:
A two-page chart to help you understand the meaning of blood
count results. Includes age- and gender-specific ranges of
normal. |
Preparing for
Doctor Visits
PDF
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For
patients and caregivers
Brochure:
What to bring, and how to prepare for doctor visits. How to ask
for and receive help from care managers and obtain special
services. Version update Aug 30, 2005 |
Concise Bring List ... open and print PDF
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Helping
you to optimize your medical consults. |
Questions for Doctors
A Checklist PDF
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For
patients and caregivers
Printable
Checklist: Guidance on communicating with your
doctor, and a checklist of questions to ask. Categories: General,
Treatment-related, Side Effect-Related, and Test-Related. |
Health Insurance
Correspondence Log PDF
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For
anyone to view, print and distribute
Printable form:
Use to help prepare for
and log correspondences with health care
providers and insurance carriers. Provides tips for filing bills
and EOBs.
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CLINICAL TRIAL SURVEY
For Oncologists Treating Lymphoma Patients
PDF |
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For
patients and caregivers to print out and give to their doctors
Purpose: To identify obstacles to enrolling patients in clinical
trials. |
Clinical Trials - Questions that can only
be answered by trials
PDF
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For
patients, caregivers and investigators
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Clinical Trials - when to
Consider? PDF
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Based on
7 clinical circumstances. |
Clinical Trials - The Urgent Need to Increase Participation
PDF
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For
public and drug sponsors and investigators
Commentary: There is an increasing number of investigational agents for lymphomas and a limited patient pool, approximately 5% of available patients. Thus, identifying and addressing obstacles to study enrollment is vital to making progress. |
Clinical Trials - Locating for Lymphoma
PDF
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For
patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers
Brochure:
Simple 1, 2, 3 steps to locate clinical trials. We
encourage you to print it out and take to your next consult. |
Red
Flags and
Free Speech PDF |
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For
patients and caregivers
Commentary: on
how to recognize strong, plausible, and bogus information about
cancer treatments. |
Is
the
medical claim
reputable? PDF
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Checklist
for judging the credibility of online information |
Testimonials
- problems with
PDF |
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For
patients and caregivers
Printable
Form:
Provides information about why testimonials cannot be considered
evidence.
Updated 09/15/2006. |
Treatment
Appointment Diary
Web
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For
patients and caregivers
Printable
web form: Helps keep track of appointments and
questions |
Preparing for Treatment PDF
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For
patients and caregivers
Printable
Checklist: Guidance on how to prepare and get
through treatment. |
Symptoms
checklist
PDF
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For
patients and caregivers
Printable
Checklist: To guide when reporting new symptoms by
phone, in consults, and to fax symptoms to a number provided by
the doctor. |
Treatment
History
Form PDF |
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For
patients and caregivers
Printable
Form:
Records treatment history: types, duration, months to
next treatment, and months to next treatment of kind. Helps you & your doctor to
see trends.
Updated 11/27/2003. |
Treatment
History Calculator
Excel
version 2000
Excel
version 5.0 |
To Download:
Right-click
link on left,
Select Save Target As
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For
patients and caregivers
Spreadsheet:
Records & calculates treatment history: types, duration, months to
next treatment, and months to next treatment of kind. Helps you & your doctor to
see trends.
Updated 11/27/2003. Also see Sample
with Data Also see Treatment History Form above that does
not require Excel. |
Rituxan
Checklist Web
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For
patients and caregivers
Printable
Checklist: What to expect, bring, reactions to be
watchful for, etc. |
Radioimmunotherapy -
When to Consider PDF |
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For
patients and caregivers
Printable
Form:
Provides information about why testimonials cannot be considered
evidence.
Updated 09/15/2006. |
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Lymphoma Awareness PDF
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For
anyone to view, print and distribute
Brochure:
Q&A: What's lymphoma? What's cancer? Types? Incidence and
mortality? Symptoms? Treatments? Incidence?
Famous people with? Updated September 2007 |
Lymphoma
simplified PDF
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For
anyone to view, print and distribute
Brochure:
Describes lymphoma in a comprehensive way, but using lay
terminology.
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What's
Lymphoma?
includes famous people diagnosed with the disease
PDF
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For
patients, caregivers and the general public
Brochure:
Includes symptoms, areas of presentation, and statistics. Includes a list of celebrities and notables diagnosed with lymphoma.
A good brochure to share with the general public to raise
awareness. |
What's
Lymphoma?
Illustrated PDF
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For
patients, caregivers and the general public
Brochure:
Includes symptoms, areas of presentation, and statistics. Includes
illustrations of white blood cells, lymphocytes, and how a
cancer begins. |
When
Should I
Consider a Clinical Trial? PDF
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For
patients and caregivers
Brochure:
Includes a checklist of questions to ask your doctor
or the study investigator.
Includes guidelines of when a study might be most appropriate.
Includes step-by-step help on how to locate a clinical trial for lymphoma. |
FOR
RESEARCHERS, PHYSICIANS and Patients
Return to top
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| Harmonizing Research
and Treatment Goals Color PDF
or B&W PDF |
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For
Drug sponsors and clinical investigators
Presentation
handouts: Describes our perspectives on the design of
clinical trials - specific to immune-based therapies |
Increasing
Participation
in Clinical Trials
PDF
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For
Drug sponsors, and clinical investigators
Brochure:
Patient perspectives on clinical trial design. Draft: Added
April 19, 2004 |
Locating Clinical
Trials for Lymphoma
PDF
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For
patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers
Brochure:
Simple 1, 2, 3 steps to locate clinical trials. We
encourage you to print it out and take to your next consult. |
Modernizing Cancer Research
PDF
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For
anyone to view, print and distribute
Brochure:
Provides a schematic of the National Biospecimen Network; and
the rational for why it's urgently needed.
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Questions that Can Be Only Answered by Clinical Trials
PDF
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For
patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers
Brochure:
Our goal is to show patients that participation is essential to
progress - to answering questions we have today. |
Optimizing
Patient-Physician Consults PDF
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For
Healthcare providers
Brochure:
Patient perspectives on how doctors and staff can improve the
consult experience for patients. |
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About Us - PDF
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For
anyone to view, print and distribute
Brochure:
Describes our mission, history, goals, programs, and emphasis.
Lists our board members, volunteers, and scientific advisors. Updated
August 30, 2007 |
About Us - Donate Vehicle - PDF
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For
anyone to view, print and distribute
Brochure:
As above, with information about how to donate a vehicle to
support our mission. Updated
August 30, 2007 |
We encourage visitors to print or
download the items within.
Also we will mail you
the desired item on request. Please provide a stamped and addressed envelope.
Patients Against Lymphoma
3774 Buckwampum Road, Riegelsville, PA 18077 |
