Ovarian cancer: Bay of Plenty mother spends more than $130,000 on treatments

12 May 2023 - Four cancer treatments in three years: $132,775. ...

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'Death sentence' for mum with skin cancer without $100k for the drugs she needs

3 March 2023 - Jen Rowlands, 43, faces certain death from terminal cancer without a specific drug that could radically improve ...

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Cancer patient stares down the cost of buying time

18 May 2022 - It’s heartbreaking, frustrating, and it blows her mind. ...

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The drugs that give her life cost more than half the family's income

18 May 2022 - For Vickie Hudson-Craig,​ this year’s Budget could mean the difference between life and death. ...

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Free EpiPen campaign returns in response to overwhelming demand

8 February 2022 - Allergy New Zealand and Pub Charity have relaunched the successful FundaPen campaign to deliver 3,355 free lifesaving ...

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

21 October 2020 - Graham Venning was given “weeks perhaps months” to live at the start of the year but ...

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Family's $50,000 cost for dad's life-extending bowel cancer medicine

17 September 2020 - With a supportive wife, five daughters and eight grandchildren, Tony Sullivan has something to fight for. ...

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Raising funds for a life-saving drug in the middle of lockdown

14 April 2020 - A Taranaki man who has to raise funds to pay for life-saving drugs is worried the ...

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Tama is deteriorating fast. But the drug that can help him is too expensive.

31 October 2019 - Tama Hubbard has good days and bad days, just like any other 3-year-old child. ...

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PHARMAC decision to fund more cancer drugs 'massive' relief to Kiwi mum paying $6,500 per month to survive

10 August 2019 - PHARMAC's decision to fund more cancer drugs has surprised one Kiwi woman as well as lifted ...

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Cancer patient forced to crowd fund for life-saving drug treatment

3 August 2019 - The cost of cancer treatment has forced a Golden Bay couple to crowd fund for a ...

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Patient planning to remortgage house to fund costly cancer drug strikes 'miracle' scheme

26 June 2019 - A terminally ill man who was unable to afford $540,000 for medication to extend his life ...

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Guyon Espiner investigates PHARMAC: The NZ Buyer’s Club

23 May 2019 - Guyon Espiner reveals how lung cancer patients are buying cut-price drugs from India, as other New Zealanders ...

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Rotorua teacher needs $100k for cancer drug to live longer for his young sons

26 March 2019 - Trainee teacher Whitinga Harris was in a classroom at Western Heights Primary School in October last ...

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Northland father-of-three forced to sell 'dream home' to fund cancer treatment

1 February 2019 - A 36-year-old Whangarei father-of-three is preparing to sell his family's "dream home" to fund a cancer ...

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