Matt's progress on unfunded treatment
21 May 2022Hi everyone,
Life has been busy but we wanted to update you all. Chemo stopped working for Matt in December after 12 rounds so in January, he started on the unfunded treatment option. This is currently working well and CT results show that it has managed to keep Matt's cancer stable. We have almost finished paying for our portion of the drug costs before these get taken over by the drug companies. We have paid just over $25,000 for the cetuximab itself plus fortnightly hospital fees for this to be administered. As for the encorafenib tablets, these have cost us around $36,000 with one more month to pay at almost $9000. Once the drug companies begin to cover the cost of the drugs, our ongoing costs will be the administration of the cetuximab infusion and the courier cost for the encorafenib tablets which come from Australia.
Without your help, we would have struggled to come up with this money ourselves and this treatment may not have been an option. It is coming up 1 year since Matt's diagnosis and we are very lucky to have him still here with us after a grim prognosis in the beginning. Although we are unsure of what the future holds, we are staying positive and focusing on our time together with our two boys (who are now 15 months old and almost 4 years old).
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts ❤️