$10,000 on new drugs every four months keeps melanoma patient alive

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21 October 2020 - Graham Venning was given “weeks perhaps months” to live at the start of the year but a costly drug is allowing him to celebrate this Christmas, and possibly a few more.

Venning, 83, said he had been putting money aside for the last 30 years instead of paying for expensive health insurance premiums.

And years of saving money for a “rainy day” has paid off as he funnels it into unfunded melanoma drugs keeping his aggressive cancer at bay.

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