Vicky Phelan providing funds to pay for €2,000 test for women seeking access to ‘wonderdrug’

Ms Phelan said she has been providing the €2,000 cost of the test fee for a number of women, without which they might not be considered for the drug.

Patient rights advocate Vicky Phelan who is campaigning for so-called ‘wonderdrug’, Pembrolizumab, to be made freely available to everyone with cervical cancer, has revealed she is using funds raised for her own cancer treatment to help others gain to access to the same medication that is understood to have significantly shrunk tumors in her body, giving her a new lease of life.

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer last January, Ms Phelan was given little or no options for treatment, however through her own research, she discovered Pembrolizumab.