The Triple Wave: How Cancer Became an Employer Problem

For decades, cancer was overwhelmingly a disease of the elderly. The median age at diagnosis was 66. The vast majority of cases hit after retirement. For employers, cancer was tragic but largely peripheral - something that happened to retirees on Medicare's watch, not theirs.

That era is over.

Cancer has been the number one condition driving employer healthcare costs for four consecutive years. Nearly 90% of large employers now rank it among their top three cost drivers. And the forces reshaping cancer's economics aren't cyclical - they're structural, compounding, and accelerating. We think of it as a triple wave.

MarketInsite - Nasdaq Blog, By Othman Laraki, CEO and Co-Founder, Color Health and Dr. Karen Knudsen, CEO, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy