Help with healthcare costs for pancreatic cancer
This TotalAssist fund helps you pay for out-of-pocket healthcare costs, including medication copays, coinsurance, and deductibles, health insurance premiums, and other expenses. Check your eligibility with our quick and easy tools below. If this fund is open, apply today for an instant approval decision and use your grant funding right away. Learn how TotalAssist helps you.
Eligibility criteria
To be eligible for this fund, you must:
- Have a confirmed diagnosis and are in treatment for pancreatic cancer, or planning to begin treatment in the next 60 days, or have been in treatment in the past 6 months. This includes active surveillance of a condition
- Have government-insured coverage that covers your qualifying expenses
- Have an income at or less than 500% of the Federal Poverty Level, adjusted for your regional Cost of Living Index (COLI). What is this?
- Be a legal resident and receive treatment in the U.S. or a U.S. territory
- Be prescribed a medication or product listed in the approved medications, listed below
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- Treatment
- Insurance
- Income
Approved medications
Patient Advocate Foundation covers all the prescription medications for each diagnosis, including generic or bioequivalent drugs, that meet any of the following criteria: FDA-approved, listed in official compendia, and/or listed in published evidence-based or clinical guidelines.
- Abraxane (Paclitaxel Protein-Bound)
- Adriamycin (Doxorubicin Hydrochloride)
- Afinitor Disperz (Everolimus)
- Augtyro (Repotrectinib)
- Avgemsi (Gemcitabine)
- Balversa (Erdafitinib)
- Beizray (Docetaxel)
- Bizengri (Zenocutuzumab-Zbco)
- Capecitabine (Capecitabine)
- Cisplatin (Cisplatin)
- Creon (Pancrelipase)
- Dacarbazine (Dacarbazine)
- Docetaxel (Docetaxel)
- Docivyx (Docetaxel)
- DOXIL (Doxorubicin Hcl Pegylated Liposomal)
- Erlotinib (Erlotinib)
- Everolimus (Everolimus)
- Fluorouracil (Fluorouracil)
- Fusilev (Levoleucovorin Calcium)
- Gemcitabine (Gemcitabine)
- Irinotecan HCl (Irinotecan Hydrochloride)
- Jemperli (Dostarlimab-Gxly)
- Keytruda (Pembrolizumab)
- Khapzory (Levoleucovorin)
- Krazati (Adagrasib)
- Lanreotide Acetate (Lanreotide Acetate)
- Leucovorin Calcium (Leucovorin Calcium)
- Levoleucovorin Calcium (Levoleucovorin Calcium)
- Lumakras (Sotorasib)
- Lutathera (Lutetium Lu 177 Dotatate)
- Lynparza (Olaparib)
- Mitomycin (Mitomycin)
- Octreotide Acetate (Octreotide Acetate)
- Octreotide Acetate Er (Octreotide Acetate)
- Opdivo (Nivolumab)
- Oxaliplatin (Oxaliplatin)
- Paclitaxel (Paclitaxel)
- Paclitaxel Protein-Bound (Paclitaxel Protein-Bound)
- Retevmo (Selpercatinib)
- Rozlytrek (Entrectinib)
- Sandostatin Lar Depot (Octreotide Acetate)
- Somatuline Depot (Lanreotide Acetate)
- Sunitinib Malate (Sunitinib Malate)
- Sutent (Sunitinib Malate)
- Tafinlar (Dabrafenib)
- Tarceva (Erlotinib)
- Temodar (Temozolomide)
- Temozolomide (Temozolomide)
- Vitrakvi (Larotrectinib)
- Vykoura (Leucovorin Calcium)
- Xeloda (Capecitabine)
- Yervoy (Ipilimumab)
- Zanosar (Streptozocin)
- Zusduri (Mitomycin)
About the disease
Pancreatic cancer occurs when abnormal cells in the pancreas grow and divide out of control and form a tumor. It is a cancer that affects the gastrointestinal system.
Diagnosis codes
C25.0, C25.1, C25.2, C25.3, C25.4, C25.7, C25.8, C25.9, D13.6, D13.7
How to apply
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If your fund is open, apply online 24/7, or call 866-512-3861, Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 5:30pm ET.
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Answer pre-screening questions to confirm eligibility. Have your income, medication, diagnosis, and insurance information ready.
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Complete the application and get an instant approval decision. You can begin using your grant right away.
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