The Canadian Cancer Society is calling on Ontario to fund take-home cancer drugs in the same way as cancer medications that are administered through I-V in hospital.
The society’s Ontario advocacy manager says Ontario is one of the only provinces, other than those in Atlantic Canada, that does not cover oral cancer medication, which can cost patients thousands of dollars a month.
Hillary Buchan-Terrell says the cancer society has been advocating for coverage for oral medication for more than a decade.
The cancer society estimates that covering the medication would cost the province between 17-million-dollars and 44-million-dollars a year.
CANADIAN PRESS