A mother-of-five living with incurable secondary breast cancer, which has spread to her liver and bones, has been told she cannot receive a drug that might prolong her life as she is on her third round of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n
NHS England has access to Enhertu, but only for patients who have had one or two previous lines of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n
Laura Stanford, from Minster on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, who recently became a grandmother and has a daughter who is due to get married this December, said she cannot afford to get the drug privately.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for NHS England said: “We recognise how important access to Enhertu is for people living with secondary breast cancer and their families.”<\/p>\n
Laura, who was diagnosed with primary breast cancer in 2022, said: “If I can’t have Enhertu, I think I have two or three options left and they are the options that are less likely to work for me.<\/p>\n
“I just feel like we should be given the chance to try it.<\/p>\n
“The only reason we can’t try is because we had moved on to a third round of chemotherapy – we had to, it’s not our fault.<\/p>\n
“Emotionally, it’s devastating, absolutely devastating. <\/p>\n
“It’s unfair because it’s left women, a whole load of women in a catchment area that had to move on because of progression to a third chemotherapy and now [are] not entitled to the drug.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother-of-five living with incurable secondary breast cancer, which has spread to her liver and bones, has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}