Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jan 2019
Cancer patient relying on family and friends to help pay $4,500 every three weeks for medication
30 January 2019 - "It's just a really strange position to be in, that if you can't find the money you're going to die."
Halouma Pittock has nothing left to sell to fund the cancer drugs that have changed her life.
"My husband sold his motorbike, and that's it. We can't sell the house," she said.
Ms Pittock has a very rare type of cancer called transitional cell cancer. It started in her kidney but then quickly spread all over her body.
When chemotherapy did not work her doctor tried her on what he called the ace up his sleeve — an immunotherapy drug called Keytruda, which arms her body's own immune system to fight cancer.
