Monday, 21 June 2010

Sutent supplied at last...21st June 2010

Pfizer have agreed to supply Sutent for Ian indefinately.   Thanks have to go to all the teams at the Hospital who worked so hard to achieve this. I imagine it's been an administrative nightmare as well as taking up a great deal of the Consultants' time. 

As much as I would like to appeal the NHS denial of funding and humiliate the PCT for putting profit before patient care I simply don't have the energy.  We'll probably still have to pay for the tests, consultations etc. but £400 is much easier to find than £4000 every 6 weeks.
It is a huge relief and I now need to recuperate and regain my own health and sanity.  Its been a massive learning curve and an immense battle.

Many thanks to Kate Spall at The Pamela Northcott Fund for being an invaluable resource and a real inspiration and support in the darkest of times.  Also to Rose & Julia at the Kidney Cancer Support Network and all the other "pheo" survivors throughout the world who I have relied so much upon for advice.  Friends and family - you know who you are -  xx

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