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Luckily, there’s a shot to help prevent it: Shingrix, the shingles vaccine. The Shingrix vaccine triggers the immune system to respond to the varicella virus and suppress the outbreak of shingles,” says David Cutler , MD, a family medicine physician at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California.

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Still, when doctors told her last year that the cancer was growing despite two operations, radiation therapy, and a fifth regimen of chemotherapy, the retired business-meeting facilitator decided to do something unorthodox: spend $83,000 out of pocket on an unproven experimental cancer vaccine.

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billion in out-of-pocket expenses for their surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. NCI , 2022) Cancer treatment is not always covered by insurance. These are the most common types of cancer treatment : Chemotherapy: Many people get treated with chemotherapy drugs that kill or shrink cancer cells. had to pay $5.6

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