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Ana Paulino PG and Jeff College Bound 903 June 4, 2013  The Right to health care affects cancer patients

 Did you know cancer is one of the most killer illnesses worldwide? Cancer kills 7.6 million people worldwide per year. The Right to health care affects treatment of cancer patients because: 1) cancer patients are being treated with racism because of their nationality, 2) the cancer patient’s socioeconomic status, and 3) cancer patients had being misdiagnosed causing them irreversible problems in their life. According to http://www.cancer.gov/ “What is cancer?” cancer is defined as diseases in which “abnormal cells divide without control and are able to invade others tissues”.  The Right to health care affects treatment of cancer patients because patients are being treated with racism because of their nationality. In “Poor women who delay breast cancer treatment less like to survive" Karen Kaplan http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/24/science/la-sci-sn-breast-cancer-treatment-delays-survival-20130424 asserts that the most women wait to start their treatment the less possibility they have to survive.” A new study in California says that women let some hard number on the cost of delaying treatment, and finds that Latinas, African American and poor women were most likely to put in risk by waiting 6 weeks or more to have surgery and chemotherapy. 22% of these women weren’t alive 5 years after”. According to “Racial disparities persist in us cancer treatment” Will Durham asserts that “ What we found was that the racial disparities did not change during that 10-year time interval," Dr. Cary Gross of the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven” said. Black patients are consistently less like than white to receive recommendations of type’s treatments. This country population has a great diversity. We are all humans. We are all part of this country. We all need to be treated equal.  

==== The right to health care affects treatment of cancer patients by their low socioeconomic. Were you live can be a huge difference this are the words of cancer patients can’t afford they medications because they state doesn’t have a payment plan for them. In “Cancer Patients Could Face High Cost for Medications On Under ObamasCare Critics' by http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/13/cancer-patients-could-face-high-costs-for-medications-under-obamacare-critics/ “In California patients need to pay 30% of their medications which cost thousands of dollars. In NYC patients have copayments and the highest they need to pay is $70 dollars" some of the sickest patients in California cannot afford they medications. In “Area, Socioeconomic Variation in US” http://seer.cancer.gov/publications/ses/ses_monograph.pdf is asserted that “cancer patients with high poverty areas had highest rates of late accomplishment of diagnosis and lower rate of survival”. We all know the treatment is really expensive but not because of that we need to let sick patients die without extending a hand to them. I believe we should have co payments in all the states. ====  Lastly the right to health care affects cancer patients by being misdiagnosed. In “Misdiagnosed” Jennifer Rufer http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132213&page=1#.Ua9tbvlQF_V prove that when she was 22 was misdiagnosed of cancer getting chemotherapy and hysterectomy, she didn't need. She now can’t imagine a mother life. Also in “five commonly misdiagnosed disease” Elizabeth Cohen asserts that the University of Harvard had study misdiagnosed claims in U.S cancer was the most misdiagnosed illness, primary the breast and colorectal cancer”.

 The right to health care affects cancer patients by patients are being treated with racism because of their nationality, the cancer patient’s socioeconomic status, and cancer patients had being misdiagnosed causing them irreversible problems in their life. Our society has a lot of cancer patient’s rich, poor, with different cultures but all of them should be treated equal. No matter what they are part of our country and our job is to keep this country safe and with a healthy population.