Help Kylea get cancer drug OLAPARIB
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Hi Everyone. My name is Conor Dowling. This fundraiser is one of the most emotional things I have ever had to do. Kylea Dowling is my mother. She has the biggest kindest heart out of any one I’ve ever known. For the past 10 years she’s had two battles with cancer. In 2012 Mum had Stage 3 bowel cancer and underwent chemotherapy and surgery for this . After her sisters battle with Triple Negative Breast Cancer in 2016, Mum found out that she (and her sister) had the BRCA 1 gene mutation which greatly increased her risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Mum immediately had her ovaries and uterus removed to reduce her risk of ovarian cancer and late last year had a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Unfortunately this preventative surgery revealed an aggressive Triple Negative Breast Cancer growth. Mum has just finished 6 months of chemotherapy for this. Mum now hopes to start taking Olaparib which was recently shown in the OlympiA clinical trial to significantly reduce the risk of cancer recurrence in BRCA 1 woman who are treated in the early stages of their cancer by almost 50%. To our dismay this drug isn’t available for Mum as a PBS drug which means Mum has to pay $6,950 a month and needs to take this for 12 months. When I found out that Mum wasn’t eligible to get it on the PBS I was angry and just purely disappointed in our Government for their decisions about who can access this drug at the PBS cost. For the last month, Mum has been trying desperately to find a compassionate access program to get this drug at a reduced cost however all attempts have failed and mum will have to pay the full amount and the yearly cost will be $83,400. Our family have been through so much and this is a huge financial burden on us. But one we know we have to take to give mum the best chance of survival. We will exhaust every avenue to fund this drug so Mum can be here for as long as possible. So to anyone who is willing to help, any donations will be more than helpful. We thank you for all your support and know that mum is fighting as much as she can to stay with us for as long as she can. Thank you and God Bless. Conor Dowling.
Organizer and beneficiary
Conor Dowling
Organizer
The Oaks NSW
Kylea Dowling
Beneficiary
