Financial Support

This Second Annual Guide is provided to you by CONQUER magazine, to help you and your providers, especially your nurse navigator, become more aware of the many financial support services that may be able to help you to receive the best treatment you need and relieve you of the associated financial worries.

In this interview, Daniel Klein, President and CEO of Patient Access Network (PAN) Foundation, discusses the financial support services the PAN Foundation provides to patients and providers dealing with cancer.

Alan Balch, PhD, CEO of the Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF), a nonprofit organization, discusses the support services PAF offers to patients with cancer in this interview.

This directory lists the Government Foundations and Nonprofit Organizations available to patients with cancer, organized by specific cancer type.

The following Government Foundations and Nonprofit Organizations provide financial assistance for patients with cancer.

A look at valuable resources that can help patients and their loved ones alleviate the financial burden of paying for lodging while undergoing treatment.

The Emilio Nares Foundation, located in San Diego, CA, helps children and their families navigate through a cancer diagnosis with valuable services, from a cost-saving transportation program to modified shirts with easy access to chemotherapy ports.

Drug development is an expensive and laborious process for drug companies, and involves conducting years of research in the lab, followed by years of clinical trials with patients, before a drug gets through the FDA review and approval (or rejection), and then onto the market.

Many patients with cancer face a serious financial burden, and some are missing treatment or skipping treatment altogether because of the cost.

Financial navigators are in the best position to help patients maximize their financial assistance.

Cancer treatment is getting even more expensive than before, and paying for it is yet another serious issue that many patients with cancer face. Even for patients who have private insurance through their employer or through an individual plan, many patients today are expected to pay an increasing share of their care from their own pocket.