Financial toxicity adds to stress of breast cancer diagnosis

Working-age Australian women diagnosed with breast cancer collectively lose an average of 1.5 years of full-time work for every person diagnosed, costing billions in wages and gross domestic product. In Australia, breast cancer incurs the highest healthcare expenditure of any tumour type, with over AU$1.5 billion spent on breast cancer screening and treatment in 2020–21. Rising rates […]

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