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Read in the SMH (smh.com.au/politics/feder…) that @GregHuntMP is about to announce funding for CAR-T cell subsidised therapy in Australia. Some thoughts about this (& economic justice for palliative care patients): a thread 1/
Firstly, cancer is scary. That’s not a rocket-science statement, it’s a bleeding obvious. When we experience a huge diagnosis, it’s a massive upheaval in life - and one that (most) people would do anything, pay anything, to make go away. 2/
What happens though for those patients that don’t have curable disease? Setting aside the non-malignant palliative care patients for a moment - there are always a percentage of people who won’t or can’t get better with current therapy, although often not for a lack of trying. 3/
