{"id":37709,"date":"2024-12-15T04:34:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T04:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=37709"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:47:44","slug":"woman-40-denied-life-extending-cancer-drug-announces-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=37709","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 40, denied life-extending cancer drug >>>>>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-685-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-685-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-685-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-685-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-685.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The drug could&#8217;ve given Swansea mum Rachel Davies an extra six months<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A woman who was denied a life-extending cancer drug has announced her own death in a heartbreaking statement urging others to &#8216;live your life and live it well&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rachel Davies was diagnosed with secondary breast&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ladbible.com\/cancer\">cancer<\/a>&nbsp;which had spread to her bones, back, neck and pelvis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 40-year-old had prepared a post to be posthumously shared on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ladbible.com\/social-media\">social media<\/a>\u00a0and it went live on Thursday morning, confirming she is \u2018no longer here\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davies had been a campaigner for the drug Enhertu which can give patients with a specific type of incurable breast cancer an average of an extra six months to live. It is not currently available on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ladbible.com\/nhs\">NHS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mum from Swansea had previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp879pk2d68o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told\u00a0<\/a>BBC Wales News she thought there would be a high chance of it working for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I just want the chance, the chance to be able to live,&#8221; she said when receiving her final chemotherapy treatment through the NHS. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m doing this, for my son and my family, not just for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davies\u2019 oncologist from Swansea Bay&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ladbible.com\/health\">health<\/a>&nbsp;board had applied for specialist funding for the drug but it was refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, it said it \u2018carefully considers all requests for the funding of treatments that fall outside normal treatment protocols\u2019 and takes NICE (the health assessment body) recommendations into account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NICE decided against recommending the drug in July, citing it as not cost-effective and instead called on pharmaceutical companies to offer a fairer price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Announcing her death on Facebook, Davies\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0c226kfpbGSkgzc2KrhAtRmrtZ1L7rN2M7knLFMzQmX1imC1e7YZJ8ebXvNrmndUAl&amp;id=693188800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>: \u201cIf you&#8217;re reading this, then it means I&#8217;m no longer here, I can&#8217;t say to a better place as that is impossible!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=37674\" title=\"\">ALSO READ&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drug could&#8217;ve given Swansea mum Rachel Davies an extra six months A woman who was denied a life-extending cancer drug has announced her own death in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49723,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37709\/revisions\/49723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}