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Support regional families with a home away from home while they fight cancer
The hidden cancer crisis in regional Australia
People living in regional and rural communities face serious financial, physical, and emotional stress when travelling for cancer treatment. For many, this overwhelming burden means delaying—or worse, abandoning—life-saving care.
Cancer death rates are 30% higher in rural Australia.
30% of Australians live 180km+ from major healthcare.
1 in 5 regional NSW cancer patients skip treatment due to travel costs.
Your donation will help remove the barriers that prevent families from getting the treatment they need. Fight Cancer Foundation’s purpose-built accommodation centres are only steps away from major treating hospitals and cancer centres.
Craig lives in Bright, a small rural town in the foothills of the Australian Alps. When he discovered a large Basal Cell Carcinoma on his head last year, he was looking at a drive of over 200km every day, five days a week for five weeks, to receive life-saving radiation treatment. Craig knew that driving would be costly and dangerous, so he reached out to Fight Cancer Foundation's Hilltop
Accommodation Centre in Albury, because we could provide him with a safe place to stay while he underwent his grueling treatment.
Your donation will go towards helping thousands of cancer patients like Craig access life-saving treatment through our purpose-built accommodation centres in Melbourne and Albury.
“Staying at Hilltop while I was receiving treatment for skin cancer helped me more than I ever imagined. The biggest relief was not having to worry. I didn’t have to think about driving, getting to appointments, or even being alone—Hilltop was truly a godsend.”
The physical, emotional, and financial burden of travelling for cancer treatment prevents many regional Australians from accessing the life-saving care they need.
Your donation today will provide affordable accommodation close to treatment, giving families comfort, hope, and a fighting chance.
Financially
For regional cancer patients, the cost of travel, accommodation, medications, and childcare can tip families into hardship and delay access to treatment. Your support helps ease this burden by providing affordable accommodation close to treatment centres.
Emotionally
A cancer diagnosis and treatment is frightening. Our Accommodation Centres are an emotional support for families in their time of need, linking them with other support services and people on a similar journey.
Physically
Our purpose-built Accommodation Centres offer a safe, healthy, and comfortable environment that supports rest, healing, and recovery. Your support helps ensure patients have access to these vital facilities.
Sources: * www.australiancancerplan.gov.au/populations/people-living-in-rural-and-remoteareas
**www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S132276961930201X
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