FAQs

   

Frequently Asked Questions?

  1. What are my mailing list options
  2. How do I subscribe to the caregivers mailing list
  3. What is the normal size for a lymph node
  4. What are normal blood counts, and what do my counts mean?
  5. What exactly is a haemopoietic stem cell?
  6. Is there an on-line medical Dictionary where I can find look up medical terms?
  7. What questions should I ask my oncologist/haematologist
  8. What tips do you have for caregivers?
  9. What kinds of new treatments are there for NHL
  10. What are the causes of NHL?
  11. Can you explain what HLA matching is?
  12. Can I get unapproved treatments on a compassionate use basis?
  13. Are there any statistics about NHL?
  14. Where can I get the meaning of the abbreviations used on the mailing list?
  15. What about those chemotherapy protocol abbreviation?
  16. What is this cell cycle that chemotherapy works on?
  17. What is the lifetime limit of chemo that I hear about?
  18. What is this I heard about free flights for cancer patients?
  19. Can I go on a trip while having treatment?
  20. COBRA and switching health insurance
  21. What benefits are available to U.S. veterans with NHL?
  22. Do you people ever meet ?
  23. What is the relationship between Simian Virus 40  (SV40) and NHL?

What are my mailing list options

There are three types of mail delivery you can have

a) Individual mails (about 20-40 per day) b) Daily digest (25 mails combined into one so you only get 1-2 per day) c) No mail at all, read messages from the web site (great for going on vacation so you don't have to unsubscribe, or come home to a mailbox with 300+ messages)

 

The simplest way to change your mail or subscription options is to go to the main Yahoo "MyGroups" webpage and change them there. Just click the link below to go there now. http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups

 

You can also change your options via e-mail. For each option below all you have to do is send a blank e-mail message to the address shown below the option you want. That's it.

 

To subscribe to our group

nhl-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

 

To unsubscribe from our group

nhl-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

 

To change your delivery mode to daily digest

nhl-digest@yahoogroups.com

 

To change your delivery mode to no-mail read from web only.

nhl-nomail@yahoogroups.com

 

To change your delivery mode to normal individual e-mails

nhl-normal@yahoogroups.com

 


 

How do I subscribe to the caregiver's mailing list (or any ACOR list?

E-MAIL:  listserv@listserv.acor.org
SUBJECT - blank
MESSAGE: Subscribe CAREGIVERS yourfirstname yourlastname

 

To unsubscribe to any ACOR list just send a message to: listserv@listserv.acor.org
SUBJECT: blank
MESSAGE: signoff LISTNAME

 

For a full listing of ACOR cancer support mailing lists just visit: http://www.acor.org/mailing.html

 

Do you people ever meet

Yes indeed we do. From time to time a list member will organize a "family" gathering in their neck of the woods. People from all over attend these get togethers and have a great deal of fun. We also meet every year at the big Lymphoma Research Foundations annual convention. Each year it is in a different city. In 2000 and 2007 it was New York, in 2001 it was Chicago, in 2002 Los Angeles, 2003 Washington DC, 2004 and 2008 San Francisco, 2006 in Atlanta.

 

Click here to see any current events

 

Click here to see our photo gallery of our many gatherings.