Photo: For some patients, the financial stress caused by illness can be as big a burden as the cancer itself. When Jane was diagnosed with bowel cancer 12 months ago she knew the physical and mental toll would be enormous. But it was the financial cost that scared her the most. "Getting sick with cancer is financially devastating," she says. "My original thought wasn’t that I might die from cancer. It was, ‘How am I going to be able to pay my rent and bills?’." Jane found the financial stress caused by her illness was as big a burden as the cancer itself. "No bank will loan you money because they don’t know if you can pay it back. Financially, cancer destroys you," she says. "You can accept that you have cancer because health professionals can help you with that. But when it comes to finances you’re on your […]