Low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) are disproportionately affected by NCDs. An estimated 97m people (or 1.4 percent of the world’s population) fell below the poverty line because of out-of-pocket healthcare spending in 2010. A lack of investment in NCDs will contribute towards an estimated global financial loss of $47tn in GDP from 2011 to 2025. …
Due to the expenses that accrue from high medical co-payments during treatment, many cancer survivors experience financial toxicity (FT). In a new study published in Psycho-Oncology, researchers analyzed data on cancer survivors’ experiences with FT and found that survivors have unmet needs in its management.1 The data demonstrated that although cancer survivors experience FT, their awareness …
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How does Just4Cancer differentiates itself? We bring people together, people with a cancer connection like survivors, patients, advocates, caregivers, friends, families, surviving friends and families—even cancer sympathizers. We also bring businesses into the fold, so they can have direct involvement in the giving process while aligning their brand with their client base. In short, we’re …
The cost of cancer care is rapidly increasing. The National Institutes of Health estimates the yearly cost of treating the disease is more than $158 billion. A new study led by a Tulane University researcher recently analyzed a payment and delivery model for Medicare patients undergoing cancer treatment to see if the pilot program changed …
While medicine transforms cancer into a chronic disease with which patients can live for an extended period of time, financial toxicity threatens to turn chronic, too. It sometimes seems baffling to me: I put my life on the line for research to produce a cancer medication that — if and when it is put on …
What is it? We bring people together, people with a cancer connection like survivors, patients, advocates, caregivers, friends, families, surviving friends and families—even cancer sympathizers. We also bring businesses into the fold, so they can have direct involvement in the giving process while aligning their brand with their client base. In short, we’re a vast, …
From across the world and having been touched by cancer and suffered from the dire impact cancer had on the finances of their families and families they know, they now come together as one to beat financial toxicity of cancer on families. Faces fighting financial toxicity of cancer Here are some of their faces – …
A grandfather has told how he would have been left disfigured after health chiefs said they could remove his cancer but not carry out reconstructive surgery because of the Covid-19 crisis. John Price (69) said he was instead forced to borrow £50,000 for private treatment and called last night for others in similar situations to …
The box reminded Ruby Barnes each time she returned to her Bountiful home. As she climbed the steps through the garage, she saw the label, “Ruby’s baby clothes.” Barnes, 38, had collected the outfits while working retail jobs since she was 16. All she’d ever wanted to be was a mother. But after she was …