How long a young cancer patient survives often depends on the insurance they have.

Two patients sitting in chairs with IVs attached to their arms, wearing casual clothes and headphones over their ears.

Cancer is becoming increasingly common among young people, with the number of cases increasing slowly and steadily each year for the past decade. And the type of insurance that adolescents and young adults have can influence what stage of cancer they are diagnosed with and how long they live. As researchers studying cancer disparities in … Read more

How a foster child insurance plan threatened an 8-year-old’s cancer treatment

Brittany, Jason and Ollie Super

Ollie Super has been in and out of cancer treatments since being diagnosed with neuroblastoma while in foster care as a toddler. Now the 8th and 2nd graders are working on it again. Her cancer returned late last year. Ollie’s parents, who adopted her in 2020, tried to enroll her in a clinical trial using … Read more