Cancer treatment costs: 'I had to rob money from the money we’d set aside for my son’s wedding'

Bernard Mahon told his story at the IPHA annual conference, which was held this year at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre. Picture: Maxwells

A cancer patient, who dipped into his son’s wedding money to fund life-saving treatment that his insurer initially refused to cover, has called for “dramatically unfair” limits on drugs funding to end.

Professor Bernard Mahon was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer and thought last Christmas could be his last until he gained access to a game-changing drug, Pembrolizumab.