In a disease narrative, curative solutions are likely to dominate over the counterpart preventative options.
Curative solutions work on the same foundation; artificial addition of substance into one’s body to boost one’s immune system, and aid the fight against diseases.
Preventative solutions are considered more cost effective and could avert up to 50 percent of cancer cases today .
Assuming a breast cancer patient has both covers, she is left with the burden of raising 70 percent of her costs from out of pocket means, in order to access quality of cancer care treatment.
In Kenya, about 30 percent of health care costs are met out- of -pocket (OOP), an increase from the 27 percent reported by World Bank in the year 2016.