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      Use of an Online Crowdfunding Platform for Unmet Financial Obligations in Cancer Care

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          This cross-sectional study identified characteristics of patients using an online crowdfunding platform for unmet financial obligations associated with cancer care.

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          Washington State cancer patients found to be at greater risk for bankruptcy than people without a cancer diagnosis.

          Much has been written about the relationship between high medical expenses and the likelihood of filing for bankruptcy, but the relationship between receiving a cancer diagnosis and filing for bankruptcy is less well understood. We estimated the incidence and relative risk of bankruptcy for people age twenty-one or older diagnosed with cancer compared to people the same age without cancer by conducting a retrospective cohort analysis that used a variety of medical, personal, legal, and bankruptcy sources covering the Western District of Washington State in US Bankruptcy Court for the period 1995-2009. We found that cancer patients were 2.65 times more likely to go bankrupt than people without cancer. Younger cancer patients had 2-5 times higher rates of bankruptcy than cancer patients age sixty-five or older, which indicates that Medicare and Social Security may mitigate bankruptcy risk for the older group. The findings suggest that employers and governments may have a policy role to play in creating programs and incentives that could help people cover expenses in the first year following a cancer diagnosis.
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            Medical Crowdfunding for Scientifically Unsupported or Potentially Dangerous Treatments

            This study identified fundraising campaigns for unsubstantiated treatments, such as homeopathic remedies for cancer and antibiotic therapy for chronic Lyme disease, on GoFundMe and other crowdfunding platforms.
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              Regionalization and Its Alternatives

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                Journal
                JAMA Internal Medicine
                JAMA Intern Med
                American Medical Association (AMA)
                2168-6106
                September 09 2019
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco
                [2 ]Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogota, Colombia
                [3 ]Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco
                Article
                10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.3330
                6735418
                31498408
                a3dd2aec-5d7f-4b44-a329-49906a33f1e1
                © 2019
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