Has anyone had a family member go through a cancer fight with no insurance?

This is actually a decent option. I had some of my sons treatments at MD Anderson covered for free by allowing them to use the results for some research they were doing. It actually saved us (and my insurance company) a pretty penny.

Even if it doesn't cover everything it may leave us trying to come up with less.
This was my though. When my father in law was diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer his doctors had him a chance to go to MD Anderson at no cost to be in a study using some new processes. He declined but it was fully covered. I research those options.