Principle 3 states that:

"Equality of access (and equality of insurance coverage) should be available for all patients to all approved cancer treatments."

Specifically:

• Every cancer patient should have access to the treatments recommended by their physicians.
  
  
• Patients should not suffer from cost discrimination based on the type of therapy provided or the mechanism of delivery.
  
  
• Oral drugs should have the same coverage as intravenous drugs, surgery, radiation, transplantation, etc.
  
  
• The Medicare donut hole is an arbitrary and unfair burden on our most vulnerable citizens.
  
  

Click here to read the original Cancer Patient Statement of Principles in full.