“The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?” KnowsDiesBrainAliveConditionsMonthsPeriodsCostDollarsPatientCancerLots Of MoneyWorth ItDiagnosisBrain Cancer Author:Charles Teo
“What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.” WellsPersonsFoundCostCancerFocusedBreastsTreatmentMy Best FriendBreast Cancer Author:Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
“Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year. But the choice involves not the certainty of cancer very soon but an increased probability of cancer at some time in the future. The cancers are no less real; millions will die painfully and prematurely because of what we do to our environment. But the choice is not an easily visualizable one, and our capacity of denial comes strongly into play - as it tends to whenever we must weigh future costs against immediate benefits.” PeopleIfsYearsRealPlayDiesChoicesMillionsEnvironmentCostBenefitsCapacityEnvironmentalCancerCertaintyDenialGoodsPollutionProbabilityOur Environment Author:Paul L Wachtel
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.” IfsFirstsPainCan DoHealingHalfStepsCostSmileIllCancerHardestRecoveryBroken HeartRemedyHardest ThingHealing Heart Author:Allen Klein
“When you think of the costs of cancer care, one can imagine that drugs like checkpoint blockers or transfer of these T lymphocytes are actually cost-saving, just as treatments for hepatitis C, while expensive, overall save money by preventing hepatitis and hep - hepatocarcinoma in patients.” ThinkingCareImagineCostDrugPatientCancerSavingExpensiveTreatmentImagine ThatTransfersSaving MoneyPreventingCheckpointsHepatitisHepatitis C Author:Laurie Glimcher
“If we were able to put every single solitary cancer cell that has a genomic - had their genome done in one place, we have the computing capacity to go in and look at what are the similarities and dissimilarities that make them work and don't work. And every expert will tell you, it is probably gonna exponentially increase the capacity to be able to find, A, cures, B, vaccines, and C, turn some cancers into chronic diseases, rather than it cost you your life.” IfsLooksDoneAbleTurnsCostDiseaseCapacityIncreaseCancerCuresCellsExpertsSolitarySimilarityVaccinesComputingGenomeGenomics Author:Joe Biden
“Let me say two things about the costs - one is that there are detailed studies that show this, this is what some of the Stanford studies show, in fact, that we get so healthier, so much more healthy, when we eliminate fossil fuel pollution - 200,000 [fewer] premature deaths a year for example. And that's just the death part of it. Not to mention the asthma part of it, the heart attacks and the strokes and the cancers. And we also call for a healthy food system that prioritizes sustainable healthy local food production.” YearsHeartTwoFactsShowsStudyExampleHealthyCostLet MeCancerProductionsLocalsTwo ThingsFuelFewerPollutionStrokesFossilsFossil FuelPrematurePrioritizeHeart AttackHealthy FoodStanfordAsthmaFood ProductionPremature DeathLocal Food Author:Jill Stein
“People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beef steak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets. Does that make sense?” PeopleHeartDoeStuffHalfTroubleCostThousandFortuneKillingCancerMake SenseDozenSoupBeefSteakLentils Author:George Harrison