More advanced cancer seen in uninsured Americans
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Uninsured Americans and those in a government health program for the poor are far more likely to have advanced diseases when diagnosed with cancer than those with private coverage, researchers said on Sunday.
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A US government survey says the number of Americans living in poverty or without health insurance grew last year. The Census Bureau on Thursday said the number of poor people have climbed 1.3 million to 35.
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WASHINGTON - The number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3 million last year, while the ranks of the uninsured swelled by 1.4 million, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.    It was the third straight annual increase for both categories...
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Numerous media reports have indicated big increases for Medicare and employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and for the number of Americans lacking health insurance.
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People with cancer should get more help with the financial costs of dealing with the condition, campaigners say.
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Far from the expected deluge, relatively few patients with cancer and other serious illnesses have applied for generous early Medicare prescription drug coverage.
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Americans with prostate cancer are traveling out of the country to receive a treatment that is not approved in the United States.
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Close relatives of cancer patients are often at substantially higher risk than the population at large of developing cancer themselves, a study of 32,000 cancer patients over nearly 50 years has revealed.
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Older, less educated and lower-income women are less likely to get a mammogram even when their insurance pays for it, and those who go without mammograms are more likely not to be diagnosed with breast cancer until the disease has advanced, according to a
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White Americans have a two-fold  higher incidence of bladder cancer than black Americans, but  the risk of death among blacks is 35 percent higher than whites  when patients with the same cancer stage and grade are  compared.
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Low-income patients covered by Medicaid have more complications and higher death rates after colon cancer surgery than patients with private insurance, a U.S. study suggests.
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The number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3 million last year, while the ranks of uninsured swelled by 1.4 million.
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MONDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Cancer survivors often don't receive necessary medical care for health problems that are not related to their cancer.
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MONDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- People who either have no health insurance or rely on Medicaid are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancers than people who have private health insurance, researchers from the American Cancer Society report.
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MONDAY, Jan. 10 (HealthDayNews) -- Less than half of the Medicare patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer had any screening in the six months before being diagnosed, troubling new research shows.
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The idea of making coverage compulsory to help reduce the number of uninsured Americans is gaining momentum, but questions remain.
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FOR YEARS the state has provided free testing to detect breast or cervical cancer in low-income women. But until this year there were no funds to treat women who lacked insurance but were ineligible for Medicaid.