Fighting for fundingWhen Saunders first spoke with CBC Nova Scotia in December, he'd just learned from his doctors that the province had rejected their request to send him to Boston for CAR-T therapy. (Submitted by Hailey MacDonald)"It felt like an impossible task when we were told that we had to get funding," said Hailey MacDonald, Saunders's daughter. Saunders became the first man in Nova Scotia to get public coverage for the $900,000 immunotherapy and its associated hospital stay in Boston at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. (Paul Poirier/CBC)Both she and her father acknowledge that he was lucky to be the first to get coverage in Nova Scotia. The other patients Saunders met in Boston were getting the treatment after only one or two failed rounds of chemotherapy.

Source: CBC News May 03, 2019 09:00 UTC