Travelling all over the countryside: travel-related burden and financial difficulties reported by cancer patients in New South Wales and Victoria.

Objective: To describe travel burden and travel-related financial burden experienced by cancer patients over the first year after diagnosis.

Design, Setting, Participants: Population-based longitudinal cohort of recent adult cancer patients diagnosed with the eight most incident cancers recruited from New South Wales and Victorian Cancer Registries. Self-report survey data were collected at 6 and 12 months after diagnosis from 1410 participants (city: n = 890; regional/remote: n = 520).