Hadi Mohamad Abu Rasheed at COGC 2026: From Financial Navigation to Better Cancer Care
At the 2026 Community Oncology Global Congress, Hadi Mohamad Abu Rasheed discussed the need for better financial navigation and patient support systems in cancer care. He argued that the current system places an undue burden on patients and advocated for the 'right to be forgotten' regarding medical history.
Why it matters
The discussion highlights systemic failures in healthcare accessibility and the long-term financial and social impacts of cancer treatment.
At the Community Oncology Global Congress ( COGC 2026 ), organized by OncoDaily, Hadi Mohamad Abu Rasheed , Scientific Advisor and Director of Programs at Qatar Cancer Society, approached patient access from two connected but distinct angles.
One of them was financial navigation – moving beyond the idea of simply helping patients pay for treatment and toward identifying financial vulnerability early, understanding the full cost of cancer, and connecting each patient with the support they actually need.
Then, he widened the lens to patient navigation across the cancer journey, asking what happens when patients face fragmented referrals, transportation problems, language barriers, psychosocial distress, or simply do not know where to go next.
The two topics ultimately came back to one question: if patients need navigators to get through cancer care, what does that say about the way the system itself is designed?
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