Breast cancer patients are facing wide-ranging financial, emotional and social burdens following their diagnosis as many grapple with significant up-front costs alongside a disease that often strikes without warning.
More than 21,000 Australian women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, yet despite huge advances in treatment and survival prognosis, hidden costs continue to devastate lives.
Rhiannon Abshoff was 32 and on maternity leave with her one-year-old son when she was diagnosed with hormone positive breast cancer a few days before Christmas.
