Cancer comes at high physical, financial cost: report [Video]

Kayla Ouellette has been in remission for nearly a year now after ringing the infamous bell on Feb. 21 of this year.

The 28-year-old woman was diagnosed with anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, a very rare from of thyroid cancer, back in 2022.

“It was a rough journey,” said Ouellette.

“I did radioactive iodine treatments and then I had to do six weeks of radiation.”

She did her treatment in Saint John, N.B., a nearly three-hour journey from her home, family and children.

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She says she spent between $3,000 to 4,000 of her own money over that six-week period.

“The running back and forth from home to the hospital on Mondays and then coming home on Fridays to be with the kids and plus we were kind of like, kicked-out during the weekends so it wasn’t an option to stay, so that was a lot of running around from home to …