Medical debt is part of the terrible legacy of asbestos exposure in America.
Cancer therapies are expensive for all patients in the U.S. The average cost of a major chest surgery is about $40,000, and eight weeks of chemotherapy may cost up to $30,000.
These medical bills often come at the same time the patient can no longer work or when a relative must stop working to become a caregiver.
Mesothelioma treatment may be extra costly because of how rare the disease is. Most patients have to travel to another city or even across the country to find doctors familiar with asbestos-related cancer.
All these costs combined can lead to a treatment side effect called financial toxicity. This is when patients feel so much stress over medical bills…
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