Host: Lee Freedman, MD

Guest: Elizabeth Ward, PhD

Having low-quality health insurance, or a complete lack of insurance is certainly detrimental to patients' health; yet is there any hard data to properly correlate an association? Dr. Elizabeth Ward, from the American Cancer Society explores the relationship with Dr. Lee Freedman, citing a recent American Cancer Society study of 3.5 million cancer patients and levels of insurance related to stage of diagnosis with 12 of the most common cancer types.