All.Can Patient Survey

78 United States About this survey in the United States Respondents were recruited through the healtheo360 online platform. Data collection took place from 1 June – 17 August 2018. A total of 497 people took part in the United States survey. Respondent profile • Cancer type: breast 25% ; skin 11% ; gynaecological 11% , head and neck 11% ; other (various cancer types, all <5%) 41% • Gender: female 63% ; male 37% • Age: 0–24 1% ; 25–64 87%; 65+ 12% Where did inefficiencies occur most? • My initial cancer diagnosis: 31% • Dealing with ongoing side effects: 23% • Dealing with the financial implications: 15% ’More follow-up care would be important. I ended up in a fairly serious bout of depression a year or so after my treatment ended. It came out of nowhere – luckily, I sought help from a therapist and was able to get through it with medication. The therapist said this is quite common in cancer patients – it would have been helpful to know this and to know what to expect’. ’Because I became too sick to work, I lost my job. Because I lost my job, I lost my health insurance’. In 2018, an estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in the United States, with 609,640 people dying from the disease. i i National Cancer Institute. 2018. Cancer Statistics. Available online at https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics