7 March 2018 - A Tauranga woman with terminal breast cancer has had to fundraise over $100,000 to pay for a treatment that would be free if she lived in Australia.

Tracey Pay, 48, is among terminal breast cancer patients who are increasingly frustrated at the lack of drugs funded for them to extend their lives.

She now pays nearly $10,000 every three weeks for intravenous infusions of the drug Kadcyla - a treatment that is not funded by drug-buying agency PHARMAC, but which has been funded in Australia since 2015.

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