World_Explorer
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- Feb 14, 2009
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Hello. My sister was diagnosed with Acute Myleoid Leukemia (AML) and is being treated in John Hopkins Hospital in Maryland as an Outpatient.
My blood has not matched with hers for bone marrow transplant, and we might be looking into the national database. She has been told she will need chemo every month till (if) we find a match.
Problem is, as an outpatient, she must face the costs, which we have been told by Hopkins that "could run into the millions".
Now US has millions of people with cancer, and most of them are ordinary people like us who dont have a few million dollar$ tucked away for cancer treatments etc. So how do these cancer patients pay for their costs and aftercare?
Naturally they must have some help from either charities, or government assist, etc, otherwise wont we be hearing news all every day that x_people with cancer left outside hospital doors because they cannot afford to pay millions?!
Can some kind person please point us in the right direction for charities or govt bodies that directly help with cancer costs and aftercare. Please assist. Thanks.
My blood has not matched with hers for bone marrow transplant, and we might be looking into the national database. She has been told she will need chemo every month till (if) we find a match.
Problem is, as an outpatient, she must face the costs, which we have been told by Hopkins that "could run into the millions".
Now US has millions of people with cancer, and most of them are ordinary people like us who dont have a few million dollar$ tucked away for cancer treatments etc. So how do these cancer patients pay for their costs and aftercare?
Naturally they must have some help from either charities, or government assist, etc, otherwise wont we be hearing news all every day that x_people with cancer left outside hospital doors because they cannot afford to pay millions?!
Can some kind person please point us in the right direction for charities or govt bodies that directly help with cancer costs and aftercare. Please assist. Thanks.