Eye on Cancer Care is a series of white papers and one-pagers that spotlight key access-to-care issues central to ACS CAN’s mission to fight cancer. Ensuring that everyone has access to comprehensive, affordable health coverage and care is essential. Lack of access to care creates challenges for cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Additionally, health coverage is crucial as uninsured individuals are less likely to receive routine cancer screenings – increasing the risk of late-stage cancer diagnoses that are harder and more costly to treat.
Access to care for cancer patients is a core priority for ACS CAN. This series provides background on critical policy issues affecting cancer patients, as well as recommendations to help ensure that patients (including those with undiagnosed cancer) and survivors can access the care they need.