Cancer-Free Madoff is Lucky: Prisoners With Cancer Die Sooner Than Those on the Outside
By Robert Latkany, MDAugust 24, 2009
Traci Billingsley, spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, claims the rumors that the $ 65 billion “Ponzi” scheme swindler Bernie Madoff is dying of pancreatic cancer are not true. According to the New York Post, an unnamed prisoner at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina stated that Madoff is taking twenty pills per day for cancer and is not doing well. Madoff’s lawyer reserved comment on his client’s health status. While his true medical condition is between him and his doctors, health outcomes behind bars make for an interesting story.
Inmates are more likely to suffer from chronic medical conditions, especially hepatitis, than the general population according to Binswanger et al. They are less likely to be obese and there is no difference when it comes to diabetes, heart attacks, and angina. When it comes to cancer, inmates are more likely to have lung cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and cancer of the liver than the general population according to Mathew et al. The aged matched general population with cancer lives 2.5 times longer than the inmates diagnosed with cancer. Some former Madoff investors may want to know that inmates are much more likely to die from a violent death than the general population according to Wobeser et al. You may want to think twice before committing a crime if you have a chronic medical condition.
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