When Duke Cancer Institute researcher Christopher Pirozzi, PhD, was an intern doing stem cell research in Australia, he spotted a child’s mobile of a ...
Even when they had good health insurance coverage, women with breast cancer reported having financial worries related to their care, and the vast majority said they preferred to know about treatment costs at the time of diagnosis.
Financial toxicity. Google it and you’ll find it’s the new catchphrase to describe the escalating costs of cancer care.The leading killer of patients ...
Duke Cancer Institute radiation oncologists Yvonne Mowery, MD, PhD; David Brizel, MD; and Fumiko Chino, MD; have been granted $50,971 in seed funding ...
Patients coping with cancer face numerous challenges, from the emotional reaction to a diagnosis, to lasting, difficult treatment regimens, to having ...
A third of insured people with cancer end up paying more out-of-pocket than they expected, despite having health coverage, researchers at the Duke Can...
Yousuf Zafar, MD, associate professor of medicine and public policy, has been named to The Samfund Advisory Council. In his role on the council, Zafar...
Diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer and admitted to a local hospital, Laura Gould-White, 48, a wife and mother of three, found herself besieged by bi...
Yousuf Zafar, MD, MHS, and healthcare technology company Vivor are the recent recipients of a National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute ...