Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2018
The high cost of living for advanced breast cancer patients
6 October 2018 - Donna MacMillan: ''I feel as if the Government doesn't care whether I live or die. That I don't matter.''
It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month - a month of messages, fellowship and pink coloured fundraising. Often hidden behind the reminders for women to check their breasts for lumps and have regular mammograms are the stories of those for whom it is too late, whose greatest need now is life extending medication. Lindy Laird talks to Far North woman Donna MacMillan about the cost of buying a little more time.
The drug she needs to keep her alive just that precious while longer is costing this mother of three nearly $6000 a month, because the government drug buying agency PHARMAC will not subsidise it.
