The economic impact of cancer.
Primary care nurse practitioners will see more and more patients who survive cancer. This article describes the costs of cancer as a chronic disease and the related clinical issues, and recommends how nurse practitioners can be advocates for their patients politically, with insurance companies, and individually.
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