She is struggling trying to live on benefits and says it’s an experience she has found humiliating. Yasmin, 57, from West London has secondary breast cancer and had to give up working for British Airways – a job she had been in for 20 years due to ill health.
NOTTINGHAM PROFESSIONAL
This is simply wrong. People with cancer need to be able to focus on treatment.Īt our 24 UK centres we have experts to help if someone is worried about money as well as professional staff to help with eating well on a budget, stress management and much more. We also know people are returning to work too early and even missing appointments because they can’t survive on benefits. This too can have devastating consequences. We know people with cancer are harder hit by the cost of living crisis. They need to use more heating, they are living on reduced incomes and paying to travel for treatment. The situation is clearly only going to get worse as the cost of fuel, food and heating continue to rise in the autumn. Many even feel the current crisis will impact their chances of successful treatment. Our Chief Executive Dame Laura Lee said: It is truly shocking that people living with cancer – which is possibly the hardest, most frightening experience of their lives – are now so worried about money that it is overshadowing the fact they are living with cancer. Over half (55%) of those surveyed also said they think they will struggle to pay for food this winter and two thirds (67%) think heating bills will be a problem.Īt our centres, we are hearing about people with cancer struggling to go to appointments because of travel costs and/or asking if they can end treatment early so they can return to work because they can’t afford to be off any longer.Ĭost of living overshadows living with cancer The OnePoll* survey, polled 500 people currently living with cancer.Ĩ0% of people with cancer also said they are worried about the cost of travel to their hospital appointments with over a third (34%) saying they worry ‘very much’
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