Why We Need You
Patient Financial Assistance Program
Helping people with cancer focus on what matters most: healing.
The challenges that come with a cancer diagnosis often extend beyond the medical treatment itself—such as navigating a complex health-care system and balancing the demands of day to day living during treatments. These challenges can increase for people with restricted income opportunities, no employee health insurance, and who live in other urban or rural communities across the province. For some, the financial burden of cancer can mean choosing between treatment and simply being able to pay their bills.
The Alberta Cancer Foundation’s Patient Financial Assistance Program offers support to eligible patients who need help, addressing some of the direct costs of care, such as travel and accommodations for appointments and medications not covered by insurance. Patients may also use a portion of their funds towards other indirect expenses, such as groceries or utility bills.
Last year, the Patient Financial Assistance Program provided financial support to hundreds of families in 123 communities across the province. Because this support program is funded solely by donations, your contributions to the Alberta Cancer Foundation’s More Hope Movement play a pivotal role in improving the cancer journey for so many Albertans, allowing them to focus on what matters most: healing.
Donate now.
"The difference that donors make is lifesaving. The money that we got from the Patient Financial Assistance Program meant that we could eat. It meant that [my wife] Diedra could travel to visit me in the hospital. It made all the difference. So, I thank them from the bottom of my heart for their donations.”
If you are a patient or family member who wish support in accessing financial supports, please go to Social Work for Patients and Families
Southern Alberta
Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Patient Resource Office
587-231-3570
Northern Alberta
Cross Cancer Institute
Psychosocial and Spiritual Resources
780-391-7664