In 2016, Family Reach responded to Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot by expanding our financial services. The first of its kind, our comprehensive approach to financial health brought the non-medical financial burden of cancer to the national stage.

Just a few years later, the pandemic magnified the need for this kind of program to help relieve financial distress. We used to be concerned about the fact that 42% of cancer patients depleted their life savings in the first two years of treatment¹ and now we’re seeing patients come to Family Reach with no savings to begin with.

Committing to the Cancer Moonshot

Cancer is a bipartisan issue. Specifically, the financial crisis of cancer is an issue of such magnitude that we must take advantage of the resources, collaboration, and amplification provided by the Cancer Moonshot.

With a goal of reducing the cancer death rate by at least 50% in the next 25 years, the Cancer Moonshot is calling on the cancer community to unite their efforts around earlier diagnosis, cancer prevention, reducing disparities, patient and caregiver support, and data collection.

Family Reach is often the missing piece of the puzzle in cancer treatment plans and we’ve never been more prepared to answer this call-to-action from the White House. We have proven services and a delivery model that’s scalable. We have an entire team dedicated to the measurement and evaluation of our financial interventions.