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- Sep 23, 2026
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Ontario must reconsider denying cancer patient access to new treatment in U.S., court rules (opens the original)
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Doctors have told Alex Shved, a 37-year-old with metastatic melanoma, that a therapy exists that could extend his life. On Tuesday, a panel of the Ontario Divisional Court agreed, directing the provincial government to reconsider its earlier denial to fund his treatment in the U.S. The court ordered an expedited review of Shvedâs case and gave the government until Oct. 2 â or earlier if possible â to make a new decision, noting Shved’s terminal diagnosis. âThe record discloses that he
This cancer drug is saving lives. It’s also threatening to break Canadian health-care budgets (opens the original)
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Four years ago, Bill Lake, a retired engineer and avid beekeeper from Battersea, Ontario, was told he had incurable colon cancer. By the time a CT scan revealed tumours had spread to his lymph nodes, doctors at Kingston General Hospital didnât think they could halt the disease. To Shari, Lakeâs wife of nearly 40 years, the diagnosis felt like a death sentence. âWe had no hope,â she said. âThey gave us one year before he would be palliative.â Lake started to check items off his bucket
An Ontario doctor can prescribe a breakthrough cancer drug in three clicks. Globally, other doctors are forced to ‘play God’ (opens the original)
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Itâs little more than a simple administrative task for Dr. Bishal Gyawali to prescribe a high-cost cancer drug to his Ontario patients. âWith three clicks of a mouse I can make it happen,â said Gyawali, a medical oncologist at Kingston Health Sciences Centre. âI can easily prescribe a drug that costs the health-care system $15,000 a month.â Gyawali doesnât begrudge this prescribing ease for drugs like pembrolizumab â also known by its brand name Keytruda â and other cancer immuno
At 11, this girl faced losing her chance of having children. A new Toronto procedure kept her hope alive (opens the original)
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Chloe Dixon was thousands of kilometres from home, enjoying the final carefree days of her summer holiday, when doctors at The Hospital for Sick Children told her the lump inside her mouth was cancer. Treating the rare soft-tissue sarcoma infiltrating her cheek would require multiple surgeries, possible radiation and 18 months of gruelling chemotherapy. It was hard for Chloe, then 11, to hear she needed to stay in Toronto for treatment, far from her friends, family and dog, a loyal Norwegian elk
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