Cancer Survivorship Issues to Be Addressed and Incorporated into the Infrastructure of Cancer Care

Lillie Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, CBCN, CBPN-IC | January 25, 2012

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates overall costs for cancer in 2010 at $263.8 billion: $102.8 billion for direct medical costs (total of all healthcare expenditures), $20.9 billion for indirect morbidity costs (cost of loss of productivity due to illness), and $140.1 billion for indirect mortality costs (cost of lost productivity due to premature death) (American Cancer Society 2010 Facts & Figures).