Cancer treatment costs expected to grow to more than $37-billion in 2034, according to a study

Of all the struggles Vanessa Percoco faced during her fight against cancer, the ones she least expected were financial.Ms. Percoco, who was just 31 when she was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2022, was surprised at the essentials that weren’t covered by the public health system in her home province of Quebec. She had to pay for take-home medications to ease the side effects of chemotherapy, supplies to keep her colostomy bag in place and physiotherapy and nutrition counselling to help restore her health.