Brain cancer patient treated with off-label drug frets over costs when insurance coverage stops in April 2023

Brain cancer patient Zhang Chang Hua (left) seeking medical advice from Dr Daniel Chan, senior consultant at Icon Cancer Centre. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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SINGAPORE - Mr Zhang Chang Hua is 42 years old and works in regional customer service for a multinational company. He and his wife, a nurse, have two sons in secondary school. He also has brain cancer.

His cancer has been under control for the past year with a drug used off-label - meaning the drug has not been approved for this particular type of cancer. With this drug, his oncologist says he has many good years ahead of him.

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