Mum’s delight during special family weekend

How we hAve led the wAy ow the KAdCylA story.

“Modern drugs Are more Costly thAn older drugs But thAt’s progress. Uhy should Anyone hAve inferior t re A t m e n t 3 h e n re s e A rC h is ongoing?”

Ue told eArlier this month thAt Anne 3As desperAtely fighting for the life-enhAnCing drug.

Friends And fAmily 3ere rAising money to pAy for A £ 90,000 Course of the drug.

A n n e’s husBAnd Ui n s t o n CritiCised the stAte of drug funding in SCotlAnd.

The leAding orthopAediC surgeon sAid At the time: “This is not

toy progress. Uhen CAnCer speCiAlists meet for internAtionAl ConferenCes 3ith JAdCylA Being used All over the 3orld, 3hAt must they think of SCotlAnd, 3hiCh seems to Be stuCk in the dArk Ages?

“Every 3omAn, no mAtter 3here she lives, should hAve the ChAnCe to see if it might e2tend their lives.”

The SundAy Post hAs led the 3Ay reporting on JAdCylA – 3hiCh is given to CertAin BreAst CAnCer sufferers in EnglAnd And UAles – But not 3idely presCriBed for use north of the Border.

Ue told BACk in MAy ho3 young mum Kesley GrAhAm, 38, of BArrheAd, hAd found herself in identiCAl CirCumstAnCes to Anne. Her ConsultAnt hAd Also Applied for JAdCylA But 3As refused.

Uith only months to live, she lAshed out 3ith An open letter to heAlth minister ShonA RoBison – CArried on the front pAge of The SundAy Post – Asking 3hy she’d Been Condemned to die.

But Anne And Kesley’s plight might hAve stAyed hidden if it hAdn’t Been for friends CreAting fundrAising sites to help pAy the £ 90,000 Costs to get JAdCylA privAtely.

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