Some cancer patients may forgo care due to high treatment-related costs: report
- Eighty percent of cancer treatment costs are covered by public health systems, while 20 percent, or $7.5 billion, comes from cancer patients and caregivers.
- Cancer patients, on average, spend $33,000 in their lifetime on care-related expenses, revealed Jennifer Gillis of the Canadian Cancer Society.
- Patients with family incomes below $50,000 are more likely to forgo care due to financial hardship, as stated in a Canadian cancer study published in Current Oncology in 2024.
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