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‘The clock is ticking:’ Ontario woman says she was denied coverage for drug to treat her rare cancer

CTV News 07 Nov

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‘The clock is ticking:’ Ontario woman says she was denied coverage for drug to treat her rare cancer — Sources: CTV News

A Toronto woman battling a rare cancer says she was “devastated” to learn that while medical professionals at Ontario’s Ministry of Health agreed she needed a potentially life-saving out-of-country treatment, bureaucrats would not sign off and didn’t inform her that her application had been recommended for approval by the ministry’s doctors.

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