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More than 42% of the 9.5 million people diagnosed with cancer from 2000 to 2012 drained their life's assets within two years, according to a study published last year in the American Journal of Medicine. via @annagorman KHN/@NPR n.pr/2XhuqAu
Randall Marley, a computer systems engineer, says he frequently comes home from work to find his wife not feeling well and frustrated about having spent a precious day of her recovery making phone calls to understand and dispute #medicalbills.
Cancer patients are 2.5 times more likely to file for bankruptcy than those without #cancer, and bankruptcy puts them at a higher risk for early death, according to research.
Given many patients cannot work during treatment, these bills may force even relatively well-to-do #cancer patients to take out second mortgages or worry about leaving debt behind for their families. via @annagorman khn.org/OTE4OTIx
After Carol Marley was diagnosed with pancreatic #cancer last July, she says, she worried what it would mean for her family, including her 88-year-old father with #dementia. #BilloftheMonth Photo via @annagorman 
Since she’s unable to work, the family lost her nursing salary.
“Money is not coming in, and it’s going out by the thousands.”
“Money is not coming in, and it’s going out by the thousands.”
