Study: many young cancer survivors don't get followup care due to ...

By Xeni Jardin at 1:21 pm Monday, Sep 24

A new study published in Cancer, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, shows that many survivors of adolescent and young adult cancers don't get the routine medical care they need after basic treatment because it's too expensive?even though most of them have health insurance. Translation: in America, even when you have insurance, cancer is financially devastating. So much so that young survivors (= teens through thirties) tend to not get the followup care they need to continue surviving. (thanks, @zooko)

? Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight video channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed on December 1, 2011. @xeni on Twitter, and email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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