Suzanne & Diane's story with the

Описание: Meet Suzanne and Diane. The two are good friends, and their stories are quite similar: both young, both living with Metastatic Breast Cancer, both live in the same city, both have the same oncologist. But where their stories diverge is in how they're both able to access their life-saving treatments. Suzanne receives an IV treatment at the hospital, but Diane needs a pill (take-home) cancer treatment. Suzanne is able to access her treatment with ease, but Diane faces barriers and needs to jump through hoops to get hers because she's younger than 65. This is the reality right now for many cancer patients in Ontario.

Imagine living in Ontario and while fighting for your life you stressfully have to jump through hoops just to get cancer treatments your doctor has prescribed because you're younger than 65:⁠⁠
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STEP 1: Exhaust all private pay options — including maxing out your private drug insurance if you have it.⁠⁠
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STEP 2: Apply to the Ontario Trillium Drug Program — encountering risky delays that take an average of one month for approval.⁠⁠
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STEP 3: Pay the government an average $4,000/year deductible most likely while working on a reduced income during cancer treatment.⁠⁠
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To put it simply: Canadians living in the Western Provinces, Northern Territories and Quebec have better, faster and more affordable access to advances in cancer treatments than patients in Ontario. ⁠⁠
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Regardless of age, socioeconomic status, or cancer type — when patients in these regions receive their diagnosis, they will be prescribed the approved treatment they need and get it when they need it. ⁠⁠
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Ontario's cancer funding is a decade behind the majority of Canada. This is unacceptable. ⁠⁠
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For approximately $50 million/year, Ontario can close the gap and provide significant financial and emotional relief to patients and their families. That is just 1/10th of 1% of the estimated $63 BILLION that Ontario spent on healthcare in 2020.⁠⁠
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Ontario's General Election is on June 2, 2022. ⁠⁠It's time for all political parties to commit to equal access to take-home cancer drugs in their platforms.⁠⁠
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We need you to be an ally and demand equal access to take-home cancer drugs in Ontario. ⁠⁠Visit our petition at change.org/bitterest_pill and sign your name. Thank you! 💗

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