20th December 2007, 11:16 am
Results of a new study find that cancer patients who have health insurance tend to live longer than cancer patients who do not. Since LGBT cancer survivors often struggle to get recognized as spouses on employee health insurance, this means that LGBT people are at a greater risk of death than heterosexual people, because of diminished access to healthcare. According to the researchers of the study, this is the case due to uninsured people waiting too long before going to their doctors, whereby allowing time for their cancers to spread to other parts of their bodies.
http://www.dogflu.ca/12202007/06/insured_cancer_patients_live_longer_than_uninsured”><font
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