
The Cost Of Cancer
She's On The Money
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The Cost of Cancer in Australia
The average overall cost to the household is estimated at $48,000. Around 1.3 million hours of informal care are provided to individuals with cancer age here. 70% of people diagnosed with prostate cancer report spending more on cancer treatment than they had expected. One in four people stopped working as a result of their diagnosis and out of those who retired, most had done so four to five years earlier than they had actually planned to do so. V.I. wanted to ask about some more detail now on more common types of cancer.
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