The cost of living with cancer - 'It ripped my life apart'

Surviving cancer is the new normal. But cancer patients face an increased cost of living, and the finance world hasn’t caught up with the prognosis

Katie Boylan on her cancer: "My surgeon said it was one of the worst cases he’s ever seen so I know how lucky I am to be alive." Photo: Moya Nolan

Almost 45,000 people in Ireland get cancer each year. There will be a diagnosis every three minutes and every hour a person will die from cancer. But, there are now more and more people surviving the disease.

Survival rates of cancers vary hugely, but there are more than 190,000 people living with and beyond cancer today in Ireland.