Medicine’s Big Mystery, What Does Treatment Cost?: Mimi Ferraro

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July 12 (Bloomberg) -- The next time I see my oncologist,my main complaint will be not the side effects of my cancertreatments, though I have plenty of those, but the impossibilityof finding out how much those treatments will cost before I havethem.

In 2006, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was 29. Thecancer was small and, in terms of surgery and immediaterecovery, things went well.