<prompt> Human: Self explanatory. I was diagnosed last week. I have about 2000 in savings. I need 700 a month for rent, 250 for my car and make 1400 a month. I cannot pay for treatment or further diagnosis to find out the scope of it. Family is not an option. Nor do I have any friends that are willing to help or I want to put the burden on. Additional jobs are not an option either as my doctor has advised me that Chemo will take a lot of of me and I will need extended rest, which also leads me to believe that I will also see less income for less hours worked. Is there anything I can really do besides going massively into debt? I have a market place insurance plan but only the absolute cheapest available to me.Edit: I would like to note, I am seeking help here. I recieved three PMs telling me to fuck off. This is a throwaway account. I dont care. Edit 2: To prevent any wasted time or repetition, I am mostly understanding that just say fuck it to the bills. Seek help from local charities, support groups, even some local colleges around me. Its my life. Get the treatments I need. Look into disability, and get every little thing recorded. In addition, I am so young that I can recover from any financial things like bankruptcy. Thank you so much everyone for everything. You are all amazing people and I wish you all the best in the world. Edit 3: Good morning everyone. I want to say this again, thank you so much. I had well over 300 messages this morning in the form of replies and PMs. Almost all were so supportive, informative or gave me a new perspective on this. For this, I truly thank you. I have gotten in contact with several agencies and charities and local support groups. I have heard back from some of the local ones and one larger charity. I also talked with my boss about this. They said that they will always have a place for me, but will not pay me for work not performed. Which is totally fair. I have an appointment on Tuesday to really find the scope of this and start getting so things in the pipeline to get treatment. Life is more important than money. Crazy concept right? It is just scary. Seeing that this could easily cost 100,000 and worrying how life would be after treatment. Damaged body and Bill collectors harassing me made it seem not even worth it to fight. There are way too many replies for me to get to, but please know I read every single word from each and a few of them made me tear up. Anyways I guess this is to much mushy stuff for the personal finance sub, so I will end it there. I was going to delete this profile, but after seeing the support maybe someone else can kind the info as I did later. Once this kinda dies down, mods you can go ahead and lock this. Edit4: Mods, you are really on top of this. Post is locked. Edit 5: I am still going to log on to this account pretty regularly for the next couple days. Still a flood of messages. Please know I am still reading every word you send my way. Assistant: Hi! Survivor here. I also mentor breast cancer patients. Talk to your oncologist and ask if they can recommend any specificlocal charity and volunteer organizations. There is also a group called Patient Advocates that assists with going through bills, finding treatment funds, help with bills. Contact the American Cancer Association, the Livestrong Foundation and any other funds available. There are so many resources available to cancer patients that dont get used! Also, many hospitals offer what equates to a 34 house for indigent patients to live in - sort of like a bunkhouse. Remember: this will be the toughest year of your life, but you can do it! I have faith in you - reaching out for help is a good first step. Human: Awesome. I will start on this first thing tomorrow. Should I go ahead an get tests done to find out the scope of it? Or wait until some correspondence between some of the agencies?  <response>: My mom had cancer treated through Cancer Centers of America. They were awesome. They are almost entirely privately funded and they do not care about your ability to pay. They also have private hotels to stay in while you are being treated so that might help too? My mom also had shitty insurance and they only asked we fill out maybe a 5 page form and they covered the 15k that was our responsibility to pay. And then did it again the year after. She went to the one in Zion, IL fyi. But like other posters have said, figuring out payment is not at all what you should be worrying about. Get better and then deal with the aftermath. 