Anya Prince on How Insurance Appeals Can Help a Patient

Healing should be the primary focus of patients and survivors. But for many, the effects of high medical costs can become a burdensome challenge. Care providers, experts and family work to provide assistance.

In this week’s episode of the “CURE Talks Cancer” podcast, we spoke with Monica Bryant, chief operating officer of Triage Cancer, about the rights patients with cancer have when it comes to the workplace.

Patients with Medicaid or no insurance may have worse survival outcomes compared with Medicare or private insurance in those with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

In this episode of the “CURE Talks Cancer” podcast we interview genetic counselor Dana Farengo Clark on how genetic counseling is adjusting to the new normal and shifting into the virtual era of cancer care.

Patients with advanced cancers who live in states that expanded Medicaid were more likely to receive early palliative care, although utilization remains low in the U.S.

Immigrant and foreign-born cancer survivors experience several disparities that suggest barriers to care and “may portent worse health outcomes in cancer survivorship,” according to researchers.