Breast Cancer and the Health Care Crisis: What Is Your Life Worth? |
| Published: October 12, 2007, 4:02 am |
| Tags: health wellness, life, mommy family, breast cancer, health, women |
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Revolutionary new cancer drugs offer hope where there was none. But the price tag may be too high for some to bear. Many Americans are already having to decide between food on the table and their prescription medications. The health care crisis is hitting hard, and the cost of prescription drugs is sky-rocketing. But what happens when you have to decide between expensive breast cancer treatments to save your life, and paying the mortgage on your house? How much could you afford to spend, to save your life? It's not even a fair question to ask, but many cancer patients are being forced to answer it. This is an excerpt from a recent article in SELF magazine... Seven months after being diagnosed with stage IIIB inflammatory breast cancer, 37-year-old Diekmeyer had spent nearly 100 days in doctors' offices or the hospital near her Ohio home. She'd had five surgeries, with another scheduled for September; slogged through more than three months of grisly chemotherapy; suffered the [ Full article ] |
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