U.S. cancer costs add up to $87.8 billion; Patients pay $4 billion out-of-pocket

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Cancer patients in the U.S. paid nearly $4 billion in out-of-pocket costs in 2014 and the disease cost the country $87.8 billion in cancer-related health care spending, a report by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network found.

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