Postcode decides whether women receive breast cancer drug Herceptin
‘A British woman is so desperate to be given access to the breast cancer drug Herceptin that she is prepared to protest at the government’s Welsh assembly in the Welsh capital Cardiff.
Jayne Sullivan, a 45-year-old mother says she means to maintain her protest until what she describes as the Herceptin “postcode lottery” for women is over.
Sullivan plans to begin her Cardiff Bay demonstration on Wednesday, the day after she learns whether her oncologist will apply for the drug to treat her.’
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