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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

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They are never seen in the same room at the same time, working as “Clark Kent and Superman” – tag-teaming with love, resilience, and faith. [To By 2017, she was finishing active treatment and emerging victorious against pretty big clinical odds, only an 8% chance of five-year survival.

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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

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” Financial toxicity has been identified as an unwanted side effect in American healthcare, first emerging from the cancer treatment providers at Sloan-Kettering Institute, one of the organizations involved in this study. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.

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