Silver Book Fact
The NIH estimate overall cancer costs in 2007 at about $219.2 billion–$89 billion for direct medical costs, $18.2 billion for indirect morbidity costs (costs due to lost productivity due to illness), and $112 billion for indirect mortality costs (cost of lost productivity due to premature death).
American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures 2008. Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society; 2008. http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@nho/documents/document/2008cafffinalsecuredpdf.pdf