carole
07-31-2005, 11:11 PM
As a lot of you already know my mother is a Breast Cancer survivor, she has been on Tamoxifin for nearly three years now and so far all is well, but there are far superior drugs out there, that are readily available and funded in Australia and England and probably USA as well, it has taken a lot of hard slogger and signing of petitions and writing letters to the minister of Health, (which I did) and they have given the go ahead at last to fund these new drugs, it is mainly for advanced cancer, so as yet I am not sure if my mother is a candidate, as her's was not, she still maybe able to get the drug, I am hoping so, she has a specialist appointment next month so we shall find out for sure then.
This whole situation has angered many women in NZ, because we have one of the highest rates of Breast Cancer in the world, and apparently the worst care, you have a much higher chance of survival if you live in UK or Australia, that really sucks IMO.
Howerver Just had to share this good news, because this is a major break through for all women in NZ.
This whole situation has angered many women in NZ, because we have one of the highest rates of Breast Cancer in the world, and apparently the worst care, you have a much higher chance of survival if you live in UK or Australia, that really sucks IMO.
Howerver Just had to share this good news, because this is a major break through for all women in NZ.