If you are one of the few that actually gets diagnosed and treated in time, I'd surmise.
I was denied treatment, but was advised to prejure myself by an ID Health & Welfare employee which would have led to fines, jail time and automatic deportation from the U.S. for a 10 year period. As it is my husband has been in the hospital for 3 weeks now in ID and I have been unable to find a way to be at his side. A federal employee with DHHS said I had been eligible for the program which detected the cancer (we were receiving bills for that testing amounting to thousands of dollars) and my privacy rights had been violated but the Feds would NOT investigate because I was not eligible for medicaid! What one has to do with privacy violations I would like to know, but I had NOT told her I was from Canada and yet her final words to me were “Go back to Canada” and yet I was in the midst of applying for my green card. I was stuck between a rock and a hard place, and ended up going back to Canada where I had a masectomy Sept 29th. My husband and I are proud people and we don’t like asking for help, I have been hospitalized in the past and we are slowly paying off those bills but cancer is beyond our means. I was a legal immigrant but was treated worse than an illegal. Googling “financial assistance for breast cancer treatment in ID” simply says medicaid for which I had been denied.