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Salon
Salon
Politics
Zina Kumok

They beat cancer. Then came the bills

When most people think about cancer, they imagine the physical toll that it takes: weeks of chemo or radiation treatment, or multiple surgeries and visits to various specialists.

What often gets lost in the shuffle are the financial ramifications. Because whether you survive cancer or not, the diagnosis is often an express ticket to Bankruptcy-ville. In fact, about 25% of cancer patients either lose their homes to foreclosure or go bankrupt.

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