One of the biggest costs of fighting cancer is lost time -- sitting in doctors' waiting rooms, in line for a CT scan, watching chemotherapy drip into veins -- and a new study puts a price tag on it: $2.3 billion in the first year after the disease is diagnosed.
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One of the biggest costs of fighting cancer is lost time -- sitting in doctors' waiting rooms, in line for a CT scan, watching chemotherapy drip into veins -- and a new study puts a price tag on it: $2.3 billion in the first year after the disease is diagnosed.