They ask for help for a woman who needs a expensive medication

A woman from the town of Presidente Derqui needs help to access expensive medication to treat her lung cancer.

This is 59-year-old Mónica Domínguez, who in 2020 began with severe pain in the spine and who, after several tests she underwent, the doctors who treated her determined that it was lung cancer .

The medication you need to access is called Afatinib Dimaleate 40 mg and it costs 800 thousand pesos per month.

In dialogue with Pilar de Todos, Andrea, Mónica's daughter, explained that the remedy comes in boxes for 28 days and her mother needs to carry out the treatment for at least three months.

Currently, the woman is covered by Include Health (Profe), but that remedy does not appear in the formulary. Faced with this situation, the family has already started the procedures before the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health and the Medicines Bank, but they need to speed up the times so that the woman can start treatment as soon as possible.

According to Andrea, it all began in 2020 when Mónica began to feel severe pain in her spine, for which she underwent an MRI.

There, in principle, the doctors observed no abnormalities. Later, due to the pandemic, the woman was unable to continue with the consultations, although the pain persisted.

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When some restrictions were released, the woman resumed consulting with professionals from the Álvarez Hospital, in the City of Buenos Aires, who confirmed that what she was suffering from was lung cancer, a tumor that had already affected one of her vertebrae.

Everything continued with a trauma operation, but from the oncological point of view, he currently only receives morphine to alleviate the pain.

Therefore, what you need is to start a treatment with the drug “as soon as possible”.

In parallel, the family has begun to manage possible access to medication with some foundations.

“I'm trying to get it, and if the days go by and we don't succeed, we'll do a donation campaign to be able to buy the medicines. My fear is not being able to get it because of the bureaucracy in between. My mom has the chance to treat cancer and that's what we want for her," Laura asked.

“My fear is that they want to give us an alternative medication, something that the doctors told us is not going to work, and that the times will also take a long time. That's why we make the request public. Maybe someone has the medication or can help us get it or pay for it," he reiterated.

The medicine Monica needs.