Cancer care crisis

Key points

• Cancer patients in Melbourne's outer west are facing rising travel and fuel costs because there is no local public radiation therapy service. Some travel 50 to 100 kilometres each day to Sunshine, Parkville or Geelong for treatment.
• The Better Cancer Care campaign is calling on both major parties to commit to a public radiation therapy facility near Werribee Mercy Public Hospital before the November state election. The group says about 440,000 people live across Melton, Werribee, Tarneit, Point Cook and Lara.
• The state government and the Victorian Liberal Party were contacted for comment.