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Anke Pregler: Financial Toxicity and The Right to Be Forgotten

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Jul 31, 2025, 13:01

Anke Pregler: Financial Toxicity and The Right to Be Forgotten

Anke Pregler, Cancer Survivorship Expertise, Projekte und strategische Beratung at Freelance, shared on LinkedIn:

“Financial Toxicity and The Right to be Forgotten

Many Cancer Survivor report that they have less energy since their illness than before. And also less time, because the care and administration of one’s own health is time-consuming…

The finanzielle Toxizität of a cancer diagnosis is talked about less frequently. Salary losses due to loss of work, reduction in working hours or early retirement are not uncommon. Co-payments for medication and other medical measures, ancillary costs of doctor’s appointments, strengthening things outside of reimbursement and support in everyday life put a strain on one’s own budget.

And as if that were not enough, some of those affected report hurdles when taking out insurance and loans. Even after many years of being free of recurrence, occupational disability insurance remains unaffordable and term life insurance impossible. Young adults in particular have been hit hard here.

Last week, I had the opportunity to talk to Françoise Meunier, one of Europe’s leading voices on the finanzielle Diskriminierung of long-term survivors. Numerous other European countries have passed laws in the last 10 years according to which recurrence-free long-term survivors are allowed to conceal their illness in financial transactions. In Germany, this Right To Be Forgotten is not yet enshrined in law. It’s about time, isn’t it?”

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