Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jan 2019
Tauranga women fighting cancer, and fighting the system
19 January 2019 - Two Tauranga woman, each living with a terminal diagnosis, are calling for an independent inquiry into the Government agency that decides what medicines do and do not get funded, as they fight for better access to "game-changing" life-prolonging drugs in New Zealand.
Time is a precious thing for Tracy Barr-Smith and Sue Wall-Cade.
Both Tauranga women are living with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer and are known in their circles as "metavivors" - an amalgamation of their terminal diagnosis and 'survivor'.
