Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2018
Desperate plea for increased medicines funding for cancer sufferers
9 August 2018 - The Government must increase funding for medicines desperately needed by people with breast cancer and other cancers, Breast Cancer Aotearoa Coalition says.
"Women with breast cancer are going overseas, selling the family home and going into significant debt to get access to the medicines they need. A lot of women don’t have that option. This means if you have money or the ability to fundraise, you have a longer healthier life. That is a terrible inequity in our society today," BCAC Chair Libby Burgess says.
Women with breast cancer of all types are denied access to medicines that are well proven in saving lives and giving women better quality of life to spend time with their families, do their jobs and engage with communities.
