Cancer is a chronic disease that exhibits a huge global health concern. According to World Health Organization (2018), cancer accounts for 9.6 million global deaths. It is estimated that one in six deaths is due to cancer. Common cancers worldwide include lung, breast, colorectal, prostate and stomach cancers. In Malaysia, it is estimated that one in four Malaysian is suffering from cancer (Akhtari-Zavare et al., 2018).The five most common cancers include breast, colorectal, lung, lymphoma and nasopharyngeal cancer as reported in the Malaysian National Cancer Registry Report 2012-2016 (Azizah et al., 2019). In that period of time, there was 11.3% increase (or 103,507 new cases) in the incidence of cancer (Azizah et al., 2019). Besides that, out-of-pocket expenditure will cause the