Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Feb 2019
'Difficult situation': cancer patient leads pleas for better Government funding of treatments
4 February 2019 - A group of major cancer charities has united to call for better Government funding for new cancer treatments in New Zealand.
The charities say thousands of New Zealanders are dying unnecessarily because treatments that are considered standard care overseas aren't available here.
David Coomber and his wife Jackie are all too familiar with how indiscriminately cancer can strike, after David was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
