Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Mar 2019
A patient’s journey with melanoma and drug coverage concerns
22 March 2019 - Living her best life with her husband Jeremy, Karen Formosa was looking forward to retiring within the next six years.
But all that changed when she was diagnosed in 2018, at the age of 56, with stage 3 BRAF melanoma.
“The end of February 2018, I spotted the ball on the right side of my chest that was black with dry skin around it,” she said during a session at Benefits Canada‘s Employers Cancer Care Summit in Toronto on Feb. 27. “I went to the family doctor right away and she referred me to an oncologist. The oncologist said, ‘I don’t think it’s cancer, but let’s do a biopsy.'”
