Despite access to a social healthcare system that’s meant to cushion all of us who make an unintended stop in Cancerland, I learned very quickly following my breast cancer diagnosis that the financial hits we take as patients differ drastically. No, we’re not shopping around for an oncologist who will accept our health insurance; we’re not left to file appeals with our insurance providers or risk paying out of pocket when they reject our oncologists’ requests for critical scans; we’re (usually) not begging for compassionate access to experimental drugs approved for treatment elsewhere; and we’re not weighing the cost of life-extending treatments against bankruptcy. But we’re also not all undergoing treatment with the same financial means, and this can have a substantial impact on our physical and psychosocial health outcomes.