More patients survive cancer but face battle over insurance costs.In the Huffington Post (5/10), Cedars-Sinai Department of Medicine Chair Glenn D. Braunstein, MD, writes, "'You have cancer.' Those three words once braced patients for a worst-case scenario." For some, the "bad news is, it still does. But now there's positive news to report": The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute have "released new findings saying that one in every 20 Americans is now a cancer survivor." The data show deceased mortality rates "in both sexes for cancers of the colon, brain, stomach, kidney and lung, as well as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, myeloma and leukemia." Meanwhile, in their "continued fight for health, cancer survivors also often must battle insurers," and higher insurance "costs for a longer period of time mean a harder-hit pocket book."
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