A Belarusian woman is asking for help to pay for cancer treatment. 37-year-old Olesya is raising her four-year-old son alone. She learned of the diagnosis - stage 4 triple negative breast cancer - when the boy was a year old. Over the course of four years, the woman underwent five lines of chemotherapy. Now, according to Olesia, the available treatment options have been exhausted, and the disease is progressing. She wants to start treatment with Aribolin. The drug is registered in Belarus, but is not included in the republican formula, so the Ministry of Health has so far refused to provide it at public expense. Two consultations at the Alexandrov Scientific and Practical Center for Republican Oncology also did not give a positive decision. One course of the drug costs about 5,000 rubles. Olesya plans to open a collection for treatment and appeal to the Lukashenko administration with a request to reconsider the decision. If the drug helps to stabilize the disease, it may be necessary to continue long-term or lifelong treatment. Source: Belarus in a minute

A Belarusian woman is asking for help to pay for cancer treatment. 37-year-old Olesya is raising her four-year-old son alone. She learned of the diagnosis - stage 4 triple negative breast cancer - when the boy was a year old. Over the course of four years, the woman underwent five lines of chemotherapy. Now, according to Olesia, the available treatment options have been exhausted, and the disease is progressing. She wants to start treatment with Aribolin. The drug is registered in Belarus, but is not included in the republican formula, so the Ministry of Health has so far refused to provide it at public expense. Two consultations at the Alexandrov Scientific and Practical Center for Republican Oncology also did not give a positive decision. One course of the drug costs about 5,000 rubles. Olesya plans to open a collection for treatment and appeal to the Lukashenko administration with a request to reconsider the decision. If the drug helps to stabilize the disease, it may be necessary to continue long-term or lifelong treatment. Source: Belarus in a minute