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Ged is a good-sort and deserves a chance to fight this sudden and invasive disease - Melanoma stage 4, but it looks like we need some financial help...

The Doc says it's too advanced for chemo, the two options available to us are expensive.

BRAF inhibitor treatment costs $3680 per week (with some free weeks, but averages ~$2.5k per week. A new immuno therapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab) costs about $9k per shot.

The BRAF treatment for a few months is likely to buy several extra months, hopefully enough time for Dads own immune system to continue the shrinking of the tumours.

The new immuno treatment was featured in the NZ Listener magazine on 2nd of July 2015 (and Sunday TV1 program 8th November 2015) and has fully reversed the same type of advanced melanoma cancer in other people. There are drug trials where some of the initial shots are paid for by the trial. There is hope that this treatment will be funded by pharmac soon, but without action we may not have this much time.