First, let’s cover some cancer stats. According to AARP, as of 2018, the average cost of cancer treatments was $150,000. In my personal experience, the total cost of my treatments and surgeries were north of $275,000 in 2022. I know, inflation, right?

Plus, not only are cancer patients two and half times more likely to file for bankruptcy compared to their healthy counterparts, but cancer patients who go bankrupt are eighty percent (80%) more likely to die from the disease than cancer patients who could afford their treatments, according to studies from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.

I believe it’s because their immune systems are further challenged by the stress caused by the financial burden of the disease.