At 24 weeks pregnant, Jessie Oldfield was budgeting for prams and diapers. The last thing she was expecting was a cervical cancer diagnosis that would leave her $25,000 out of pocket.
For Oldfield, from Tumbarumba, on the periphery of the Riverina, the cost of her radiation treatment at Wagga Wagga in January was not only the heavy emotional toll of being separated from her newborn for the first five weeks of his life but also the hefty price of $1,300 a week.
