Florida is losing affordable treatment options to help meet its tremendous cancer care need.
The state is a teeming cancer care marketplace, as roughly 1.1 million Floridians are living with the disease, according to the Florida Department of Health, citing data from the Florida Cancer Registry. That's about 1 in 20 residents, based on the state's population of 21 million.
Even as its rates of new cancer cases and cancer deaths have gone down, fresh diagnoses factor into the state's burden. After California, Florida is home to the highest annual total of new cancer cases in the nation and saw more than 113,500 in 2014, before the number dipped to nearly 112,000 in 2015, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute.
