About one-third of cancer patients face money worries paying for the cost of their care, campaigners revealed today..

NEARLY half of cancer patients (49%) in this country have been forced to dip into savings to fund their cancer treatment — with 6% of Irish cancer patients seeing their treatment costs wipe out all of their savings due to mounting health bills.

FOR the first time in Ireland, the hidden financial costs of being a cancer patient will be scrutinised in two large-scale studies.