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title: The Cancer Attention Gap - AccessHope + Lantern Report
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# Report: The Cancer Attention Gap

Is your cancer strategy meeting your goals?

Lantern and AccessHope surveyed 240 HR and benefits decision-makers at self-funded employers to learn whether their strategies align with what truly lowers costs and delivers better results for patients. See what we found and where your strategy stands.

What's inside:

- Why cancer is losing the attention battle it should be winning, even as it dominates cost
- Where the gap shows up between what employers believe about expert care and what they offer
- What employers should know about driving engagement in a comprehensive program

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# Key Findings

### 94% believe early expert intervention improves outcomes

But only 6% use external oncology experts to review high-cost decisions

### Cancer is the top unmanaged risk benefits leaders see coming

But have they built a strategy to match the risk they see coming?

### 94% of respondents say GLP-1s get equal or more executive attention than cancer

The costliest condition gets the least executive airtime.

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