3 August 2019 - The cost of cancer treatment has forced a Golden Bay couple to crowd fund for a drug which is available to breast cancer patients for free.

Babs Roberts-Borchers, 54, was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer at the end of March after having trouble swallowing for several months.

An endoscopy revealed stage four cancer which was inoperable and had spread through her lymph nodes to her liver.

Her oncologist told her she was in the six per cent of the population with oesophageal cancer who would respond to the cancer drug, Herceptin. But there was a costly catch.

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