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Financial Burden Parallels in Cancer Care Between U.S. and Malaysia

Nirmala Bhoo Pathy and Tingting Zhang

Jun 18, 2025, 11:40

Financial Burden Parallels in Cancer Care Between U.S. and Malaysia

Nirmala Bhoo Pathy, Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at University of Malaya, shared a post on LinkedIn by Tingting Zhang, Founder of Hear2Care and Onconomics Inc. and the Chief Executive Officer of ONEiHEALTH, adding:

“While this is US data, the parallels in Malaysia are striking.

Our own patients face catastrophic out-of-pocket expenses, travel long distances for treatment and often skip or delay care due to financial strain.

Yet, we lack consistent national data and a structured response to financial toxicity in cancer care.”

Quoting Tingting Zhang‘s post:

“More US patients worry about financial impacts (95%) than long term side effects (91%) or dying (83%) at diagnosis. 82% experienced financial difficulties in the past 12 months, with 27% delayed in filing prescriptions.

This is a sobering result from the survey released by the Patinet Insight Institute at the National Patient Advocate Foundation “Financial Hardship Hurts Health” Webinar today.”

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