JCO - open access: Editorial - Financial Hardship: A Consequence of Survivorship?

Financial Hardship: A Consequence of Survivorship?


"Despite this success on the treatment front, we have done
little in a concerted and well-planned fashion to investigate
and address the problems of survivors. It is as if we have
invented sophisticated techniques to save people from
drowning, but once they have been pulled from the water,
we leave them on the dock to cough and splutter on their
own in the belief that we have done all that we can."

—Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, physician, survivor of cancer, and
founding president of the National Coalition for Cancer
Survivorship