The long-time mayor of a little Ontario town figured this was from staying awake too late watching the news and falling asleep on the couch. Five years before, he had overcome cancer of the esophagus, After several appointments, he was hearing another diagnosis: pancreatic cancer, stage IV, they told him in January. Unfortunately, the new treatment is considered experimental in the province and was also deemed inappropriate in Macmillan’s case, so the Ontario Health Insurance Plan won’t pick up the tab. “(The procedure) is only considered experimental in Ontario because you don’t want to pay for it,” Macmillan told Hoskins. Currently, his doctors in Ontario are offering him “palliative chemotherapy.”When they told him that, he responded, “Don’t ever use that word ‘palliative’ around me again.

Source: National Post August 25, 2016 02:03 UTC