centers of excellence with laboratories and clinical trial centers and making those facilities available out in the homeland of usa. the leukemia and lymphoma society which i think mike mi milken knows is another superb patient advocacy group, currently sponsors studies that take early phase clinical trials which are designed to look at new drugs and test them for safety and efficiency in the blood cancers and exports them from for example the cleveland clinic to small centers throughout ohio. my feeling is that if government sponsored more work for collaboration between centers of excellence and smaller centers that were prepared to collaborate, we could make an awful lot of progress. there s some absolutely wonderful clinical trial doctors and clinical oncologists out in small places that would be only too pleased to participate.
and i was going to say that part of the value of your show is to give voice to this. it used to be when you got diagnosed with cancer, it s bad enough that you feel isolated already, but not to be able to talk about it makes it doubly so. larry: isn t it said that if you can go to the cleveland clinic, you got a better deal than if you go to wakakmanka institute in some remote city? in many remote cities there s absolute superb cancer care available. one of the models that we have developed in cleveland and one that i hope to export now that i m moving to the levine cancer center in charlotte is the concept of linking central facilities with outstanding science to smaller places. so in cleveland and in charlotte, we will be evolving a mechanism to collaborate between centers of excellence with laboratories and clinical trial centers and making those facilities available out in the homeland of usa. the leukemia and lymphoma society which i think mike milken knows is another superb
facilities available out in the homeland of usa. the leukemia lymphoma society is another superb patient advocacy group, actually sponsors currently studies that take clever new early phase clinical trials, which are designed to look at new drugs and test them for safety and efficiency in the blood cancers, and exports them from, for example, the cleveland clinic into small centers throughout ohio. and my own feeling is that if government sponsored more work for collaboration between centers of excellence, and smaller centers that were prepared to collaborate, we could make an awful lot of progress. there s some absolutely wonderful clinical trial doctors, and clinical oncologists out in small places who would be only too pleased to participate. larry: dr. gupta, we spend more in iraq and afghanistan than we do on cancer, don t we? oh, yeah. far more.
society which i think mike milken knows is another superb patient advocacy group, currently sponsors studies that take early phase clinical trials which are designed to look at new drugs and test them for safety and efficiency in the blood cancers and exports them from for example the cleveland clinic to small centers throughout ohio. my feeling is that if government sponsored more work for collaboration between centers of excellence and smaller centers that were prepared to collaborate, we could make an awful lot of progress. there s some absolutely wonderful clinical trial doctors and clinical oncologists out in small places that would be only too pleased to participate. larry: we spend more on iraq and afghanistan than we do on cancer, don t we? far more and as i think michael milken is alluding to is
in your hand 24 hours a day. reporter: she lives with intense pain, stomach pain that makes it difficult to eat, pain in her hands from the chemo. her life is a daily cocktail of costly pills. these are the three medications that i m on right now. reporter: each time priscilla went for chemotherapy, she was charged thousands for the cancer-fighting chemicals that were pumped into her body. that was, like, $4,125. then there s another medication that went into a pump which was $5,900. reporter: even with the insurance paying 80% of the costs, her out-of-pocket was more than $15,000. she didn t have that kind of savings. so, she had to turn to a patient advocacy group for help. priscilla used up her entire 401(k) savings plan from her teaching job and was taxed heavily for pulling that money out early. we were looking at about $10,000 in just bills that we were paying.