Uninsured cancer patients suffer the costs of healthcare
Case Management Weekly, January 8, 2008
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A study performed by the American Cancer Society revealed cancer patients who have no health insurance are more likely to die within five years than those with private coverage. Featured in the January issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, the study focused on a cross section of 600,000 adult cancer patients younger than age 65, who began treatment in 1999 and 2000, and who either had private health insurance, coverage through Medicaid, or no coverage.
Study participants with no health insurance were less likely to receive recommended tests for cancer that would help serve an early diagnosis, and 35% of those participants died within five years, as opposed to the 23% of participants who died with private coverage.
Click here to read the American Cancer Society press release.
Source: California Healthline
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