Financial Assistance
Treating sarcoma and traveling for care or clinical trials can be expensive. The organizations below offer grants, copay help, travel and lodging support, and more.
You don't have to sort through this alone. Many organizations exist to ease the financial burden of a sarcoma diagnosis. Use the filters below to find the kind of help that fits your situation, whether that's a sarcoma-specific fund, prescription costs, travel to a clinical trial, or support for a child in treatment.
Triage Cancer
A free national organization with a Cancer Finances toolkit and plain-language guidance on insurance, work, and paying for care. If you only visit one resource first, make it this one.
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Getting Started
Broad national resources and toolkits, a good place to begin whatever your diagnosis or stage.
A Cancer Finances toolkit covering the wide range of expenses that come with cancer. A great first stop.
Visit resource ↗Programs that help with travel, lodging, and other costs during treatment.1-800-227-2345 (ACS-2345)
Visit resource ↗Limited grants plus a curated list of organizations that provide financial assistance for people facing cancer.
Visit resource ↗A searchable database of organizations offering financial and practical help for patients and their loved ones.
Visit resource ↗A guide to organizations that help with treatment costs, medical bills, housing, and transportation.
Visit resource ↗An Affording and Paying for Healthcare guide, from medical-bill basics to medical debt and veteran resources.
Visit resource ↗Helps insured patients who cannot afford the copays, coinsurance, and premiums tied to essential treatment.
Visit resource ↗A Virtual Reimbursement Resource Room that helps care teams navigate reimbursement challenges.
Visit resource ↗Legal counseling for insurance and finance issues, plus a Co-Pay Relief Program expanded to include sarcoma patients who qualify.
Visit resource ↗Emergency relief and fast-track financial assistance for families facing the cost of cancer.
Visit resource ↗Covers travel, lodging, and food for a patient and their caregiver during treatment in a clinical trial.
Visit resource ↗Sarcoma-Specific
Funds and programs created specifically for sarcoma patients and their families.
Grants for sarcoma patients, created in honor of Kylee Brooke Webster, to help them find their “happy place.”
Visit resource ↗HELP$, a need-based aid program for adult sarcoma patients in treatment across WA, OR, AK, MT, and ID.
Visit resource ↗Jordan’s Dream Fund helps cover transportation and lodging tied to joining a clinical research trial.
Visit resource ↗A nonprofit focused on easing the financial burden for sarcoma patients treated at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Visit resource ↗Young Adults & Fertility
Support geared toward younger adults, survivors, and fertility preservation.
Grants for young adult survivors (ages 21–39) to help with medical bills, insurance, rent or mortgage, continuing education, mental-health costs, and more.
Visit resource ↗Financial support for fertility preservation for young patients facing cancer treatment.
Visit resource ↗Government Programs
If you're eligible for employer health coverage but can't afford the premiums, some states offer premium-assistance programs. These federal resources can also help.
Guidance on tracking and managing the costs of cancer care, including clinical-trial participation.
Visit resource ↗A wide range of guides and resources for managing the expenses of medical treatment.
Visit resource ↗If a sarcoma diagnosis prevents you from working, you may be eligible for Social Security Disability benefits. See our PDF guide.
Read the guide ↗Pediatric & Families
Help for families whose children are undergoing cancer treatment.
Financial assistance for families of children with cancer.
Visit resource ↗Financial assistance for pediatric cancer patients and their families.
Visit resource ↗Help with co-pays, groceries, gas, and utilities for families in treatment, plus memorial support.
Visit resource ↗Transportation support, emergency funds, and meal assistance for families of children with cancer.
Visit resource ↗Grants toward children's medical costs that are not covered by insurance.
Visit resource ↗Prescription Costs
Programs that reduce or eliminate the cost of prescribed medications.
Hundreds of programs offering free or low-cost medications to patients in need.1-888-477-2669
Visit resource ↗Free Genentech medicine for people who are uninsured or have financial concerns.
Visit resource ↗Coverage, access, reimbursement, and support services for patients prescribed Ipsen medications.
Visit resource ↗Helps eligible patients with financial need receive prescribed Eli Lilly medications at no cost.
Visit resource ↗Free Merck medicines and adult vaccines for eligible people without coverage who can't afford them.
Visit resource ↗Looking for more support?
Find practical help like housing and travel, and explore grants that cover a second opinion at a sarcoma specialty center.