Cancer, the disease also makes you poorer

The disease attacks the organism, but also the pockets. And the pandemic has created new poor: lonely elderly people, women with dependent children, young people with precarious or fixed-term contracts, as reported by the latest figures from the Caritas Studies Office. The point is that illness and economic conditions are two sides of the same coin: you know this well Francesco Perrone, Director of the Clinical Trials Unit of the National Cancer Institute of Naples, which has long been dealing with financial toxicity in Oncology, or the disruptive impact of cancer on the patient’s finances.