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Cancer sufferers crushed by loans and debt
Patients trying to keep up with rising living costs are forced into poverty
THOUSANDS of cancer patients struggling to pay bills have had to take out loans or sell their belongings, a charity revealed yesterday.
One sufferer, 47-year-old Cathy Simms, said that her “battle with debt has been harder than the cancer itself” and she could be forced to sell her house.
Almost 400,000 people each year living with the disease battle daily to keep up with living costs and loan payments as a result of their diagnosis, according to Macmillan Cancer Support.
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