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“The confluence of very high-cost treatments, erosion of health insurance coverage, and my interest in the underlying causes of treatment disparities led me to look closer at financial hardship and what could be done at the practice level,” lead study author Cathy Bradley, PhD, deputy director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, tells Verywell. Because cancer is a chronic disease, treating it can range anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000 a month, says Sameek Roychowdhury, MD, PhD, medical oncologist and associate professor at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center....

Now O’Neill has some explaining of his own to do. He stunned the car business in September when he exited Hyundai to try to repair a car wreck over at Mitsubishi. A hot brand for Gen Y, Mitsubishi hit the skids this year after selling too many cars to kids with bad credit. As the twentysomethings defaulted on their loans, Mitsubishi drove deeply into the red. Then, when it tightened up its lending, the kids no longer qualified and sales tumbled....

Both extend the franchises of their authors’ last books, which still sit comfortably on bestseller lists: Pollan’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” a meditation on the human diet, and Freedman and Barnouin’s original “Skinny Bitch,” which improbably succeeded in making veganism seem as glamorous as any cosmopolitan ever guzzled on “Sex and the City.” They both play to Americans’ endless obsession with their own insides (and outsides, in the case of Freedman and Barnouin) but challenge the conventional check-box approach to nutrition....

I’ve seen a lot of press conferences, but none like the one that Edwards and his wife Elizabeth held on a sun-dappled lawn in Chapel Hill, N.C. Bottom line: yes, Elizabeth Edwards’s breast cancer had spread to the bone. No, there was no immediate danger. No, it was not curable, but yes, it was treatable—treatment would last the rest of her life, however long that may be (years or even decades)....

Those of us on the Straight Talk Express eight years ago got a breathtaking journalistic opportunity: to be inside the lively mind and heart of a leading contender for president. McCain was as joyously combative as Popeye and as earnestly confessional as Oprah. Now, in the wake of the Times story, the old bus has, in effect, been put up on cinder blocks, the traveling press now carefully kept at a distance....

Meteorologist Jude Redfield was providing a weather forecast for Fox affiliate, WDRB News on Friday morning when he decided to use a fire extinguisher as a prop to show how a cold front was “extinguishing” a recent record heat wave in the Louisville area. But the demonstration literally got out of hand when Redfield’s attempt to set off the fire extinguisher resulted in the canister dramatically exploding in his hands live on air....

The second-alarm fire broke out on Thursday afternoon in the Orange County town of Monroe, New York. The local fire department and nearby Woodbury Animal Shelter were called to the scene just before 4 p.m., with responders reporting that the condition of the building made it difficult to extricate the animals from the inferno, according to Mid-Hudson News. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined. The Woodbury Animal Shelter reported that close to 100 cats, who were kept in cages, were rescued from the burning home....

Gallagher was accused of war crimes and convicted of having his photograph taken with the corpse of a teenage ISIS member he had killed in Iraq. After Trump restored Gallagher’s prior rank and paygrade, the Navy chose to bring Gallagher before a review board with the intention of removing his Trident pin and ousting him from the SEALs. In response, Trump fired Spencer. Spencer referred to Trump’s restoration of Gallagher’s rank as a “shocking and unprecedented intervention in a low-level review....

In the land of Get Yours, quarterbacks aren’t waiting to play anymore. If it doesn’t work at one place, it will at another. MORE: SN Power Poll | BENDER: Mayfield bringing emotion, enthusiasm to Sooners “It’s the one position more than any other where change seems to be the only constant,” says Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher. FSU trotted out Everett Golson at quarterback last weekend, the one-time destined-for-greatness starter at Notre Dame trying to reinvent who and what he is with the Seminoles after losing his job at Notre Dame....

The SEC, king of all things oblong, is more likely to miss the College Football Playoff than make it. MORE: Week 4 SEC Power Rankings | Highest-paid coaches | HAYES: End of Bama’s run? “The difference between teams in this league is a handful of plays,” says Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen. That mantra, that tired, year-after-year cliché that every SEC coach rattles off with rote resiliency, actually hits home this season....

If Jerry Jones played fantasy football, he would definitely be Brad. I defy anyone to tell me something different.

From Friday, August 16 to Sunday, August 18 more than 7000 competitors, spectators and fans will head to Washington D.C. to take part in the 2019 Pokémon World Championships. The Pokémon Go Invitational will bring Trainer Battles, a competitive battling feature in the mobile game, to the event. The Pokémon Go Invitational will take place on the first day of the World Championships, immediately following the opening ceremony. While the Pokémon World Championships is known more for determining the best Pokémon VGC and Pokémon TCG players in the world it has begun to add new games to the global competition....

Sharon Alroy-Preis, a top official in the Israeli health ministry, told the country’s Channel 12 News that the conclusions were based on the results of hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 tests. Israel is currently leading the world in terms of vaccination, vaccinating nearly a fifth of its population. Around two million people have received vaccinations in the small Middle Eastern nation, with more than five million Israelis set to receive shots by March, if a plan developed by the country’s health ministry goes smoothly....

According to a study published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, a team of researchers have uncovered documentary evidence that a man was struck and killed by a meteorite on August 22, 1888 in what is now Iraq. Our planet is constantly being bombarded by debris from space. A small proportion of this debris survives its passage through the atmosphere and strikes the Earth’s surface—these are known as meteorites....

On Wednesday, the ODWC posted a photo of the huge fish caught at Keystone Lake, Oklahoma, on Facebook. The ODWC said it was caught by Grant Rader of Wichita, Kansas, and congratulated him on his “great catch.” According to the ODWC, paddlefishare one of the most unique fish in Oklahoma and can live for up to 50 years. Paddlefish are distinguished by their extended snout, which is covered in electroreceptors that help them locate prey by sensing tiny electrical pulses generated by muscle contractions....

He doesn’t anymore; that’s Fitzgerald Toussaint’s jersey now. As in, “Fitzgerald Touissant, not Isaac Redman, lost a crucial fumble that may have cost Pittsburgh a trip to the AFC Championship.” MORE: Broncos-Steelers stats, charts | Peyton Manning is old, mediocre and fascinating Redman, who retired in 2014 because of a spinal cord injury, spent part of Monday morning retweeting people who either couldn’t tell the difference or were effectively messing with him....

The Playoff committee will unveil the first set of rankings on Tuesday, a made-for-TV event since the four-team Playoff started in 2014. The first set of rankings is guaranteed to elicit two reactions from college football fans: Step 1: Scream that the rankings don’t matter.Step 2: Proceed to argue about the rankings anyway. MORE: SN Week 11 college football rankings It works every time — especially the first time those rankings are unveiled every year....

The conclusion of the All-Star break means it’s time to get ready for the league’s “second half,” but in reality, roughly one-third of the season schedule remains for all 30 teams. With that in mind, here are five things to watch as the 2017-18 regular season comes to a close. SN SOURCES: Aaron Gordon will have plenty of suitors in free agency Will the Spurs’ streak of 50-win seasons come to an end?...

The Big East released its full conference schedule Tuesday afternoon, and once again the season will open with a quintuple-header — a word that never really seemed necessary before the Big East and Fox Sports 1 teamed up for the first time last season — set for New Year’s Eve. That’s just one of the highlights of the league’s 2014-15 season: Marquette at Ohio State (Nov. 18, 6:30 p.m., ESPN2) This will not serve as the head coaching debut of Duke legend Steve Wojciechowski, but who’s really all that jazzed about seeing him against UT Martin?...