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Article: LIVESTRONG(TM) Poll Finds Nearly Half of People Living With Cancer Feel Their Non-Medical Needs Are Unmet By the Healthcare System; Poll Also Finds People Living With Cancer Are Optimistic About Life; 59 Percent Expect to Die From Something Other Than Cancer.
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- November 30, 2004
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AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly half (49 percent) of people living with cancer feel their non-medical cancer needs are currently unmet by the healthcare system, according to the LIVESTRONG(TM) Poll, a national poll released today by the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF). The comprehensive poll measures the perceptions and attitudes of more than 1,000 people living with cancer nationwide.
Of the 10 million people in the U.S. living with cancer right now, roughly half believe the healthcare system is not addressing their critical needs. Among those who felt their non-medical cancer needs were unmet, 70 percent said their oncologists did not offer any ...