Life-saving cancer treatments could help 41,000 Aussies but they aren’t funded

Daily Telegraph

20 August 2019 - Alisanne Ride was given six months to live before she started an expensive treatment that eliminated the cancer from her body. But there’s one big catch when it comes to the life-saving drug.

The problem is she’s had to raid her superannuation and her mortgage to pay for the treatment that has already doubled her lifespan and “gobsmacked” her by totally eliminating the cancer.

Ms Ride, who was a director of a law firm at age 39, was given between three to six months to live in October after learning an aggressive bowel cancer had spread to her liver.

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