Web Seminar The cancer attention gap: Why employers are underinvesting in their biggest cost risk

September 15, 2026 2:00 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. PT 60 minutes
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Speakers

  • Alex Burggren
    Alex Burggren
    Vice President of Consultant Relations
    AccessHope
    (Speaker)
  • Stephen Speicher, MD
    Stephen Speicher, MD
    Associate Chief Medical Officer
    Lantern
    (Speaker)
  • Lynn Gresham
    Lynn Gresham
    Former Editor-in-Chief
    Employee Benefit News
    (Moderator)

Cancer remains employers’ largest unmanaged cost risk. But it’s losing daily executive attention to trendier benefits topics like GLP-1s and mental health. That drift is creating a structural gap, one that quietly drives higher spend and worse outcomes for employees.

Here’s what most benefits strategies miss: Cancer costs aren’t driven by drugs alone. They escalate when treatment decisions are made without the subspecialty expertise that precision oncology requires. The wrong call early on can cascade across every line of therapy, hospitalization, and complication that follows.

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • How executives lose focus on cancer, their top cost driver
  • Why 94% of employers value expert oncology review, yet only 6% offer it
  • Strategies to close this gap without adding complexity to employers’ benefits strategy
  • What early results look like when subspecialty expertise is introduced at the right moment

Whether you’re shaping benefits, guiding clinical strategy, or advising employers, this session will give you the data and the framework to put cancer back on the executive radar.


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This seminar is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® certification holders. HR certified? Attend the seminar and earn 1 PDC toward your SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification!

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