Financial Support

Introduction

Cancer treatment may add expenses or reduce income-earning time. It helps to get your financial bearings upfront.

Whether you have health insurance or not, you can learn how to cover your costs and avoid worry through the information in the links in the column to the right. There you'll find details on everything from insurance-policy language to government programs that can help.

 

 

Latest Cancer News

  • May 9, 2008
    Stem Cell Transplant Procedures Vary Throughout the World
    Stem cell transplant practices vary substantially among physicians treating adults and children with hematologic malignancies (cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukemias and lymphomas).  These findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
  • May 9, 2008
    Genetic Variation Associated with Risk of Neuroblastoma
    Individuals with a common genetic variation (change in DNA) on the chromosome band 6p22 have a significantly increased risk of developing neuroblastoma, as well as an increased risk for disease relapse and advanced disease. These results were recently published in an early online article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
  • May 9, 2008
    Prostate cancer deaths fall after screening program
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Prostate cancer deaths fell substantially in the decade after one Austrian state began free PSA screening tests for all men ages 45 to 75, according to a new study.
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