{"id":30677,"date":"2025-08-29T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30677\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:04:09","slug":"i-had-to-make-sure-i-was-able-to-afford-not-to-have-a-job-how-the-costs-of-cancer-care-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30677\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I had to make sure I was able to afford not to have a job\u2019 \u2013 how the costs of cancer care add up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From petrol to podiatry, the financial implications of cancer go far beyond the cost of chemo\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jenny Murphy was diagnosed with cancer nine years ago\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/812d2ec5-beec-4a33-bb42-55df10379a8a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Jenny Murphy was diagnosed with cancer nine years ago<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On paper, the costs of contending with a cancer diagnosis may seem straightforward. According to 2019 research by the Irish Cancer Society, the average additional cost is \u20ac756 per month, with many facing outgoings of up to \u20ac1,000 per month. Households affected by cancer can also see an average loss of income of \u20ac1,500 each month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">According to a 2022 survey by Core Research, commissioned by the Irish Cancer Society, the majority (78pc of lower socio-economic groupings and 65pc from those in higher socio-economic groupings) felt they were in a worse financial position compared to the year before. The most common average expenses were medications, GP visits and treatment abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From petrol to podiatry, the financial implications of cancer go far beyond the cost of chemo Jenny Murphy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[18,135,475,474,19,17,21535,24322],"class_list":{"0":"post-30677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-living-with-cancer","15":"tag-saoirse-hanley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}