How Do You Explain the Financial Costs of Cancer and Financial Options to Mesothelioma Patients?

The first answer to that is there's a huge financial burden to any type of cancer diagnosis. It's just astronomical. You can have the best insurance that is. There may be a co co pay, they may not be. But, travel involved, going back and forth doctor's appointments, is just the little expensive would be, but it can be just so astronomical with seeing specialists, whether if it's out of it, or if you're going out of state, it just can be just overwhelming. So oftentimes, more times than not, a patient will say, I just can't afford this? How am how am I gonna afford this? What is this gonna cost me? There is the a benefit that there are some financial, options for them. And we do our best to explain it and help patients understand what those options are. We want them to make their own decisions on that, but our job as advocates is to educate them and guide them. So when it comes time for them to make those choices, they're making very informed decisions.