IN-DEPTH | Why only some public sector patients can access key breast cancer drug

A potentially lifesaving or life-extending breast cancer medicine is available to public sector patients in several provinces, but not in the Western Cape. Elri Voigt asks what is behind the Western Cape government’s decision.

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