Imagine needing a drug that could save your life and then being told you can’t have it unless you have an unnecessary surgery? Neither can we.

Many young, pre-menopausal women with hormone positive stage IV breast cancer take medication that suppresses ovarian function stopping their bodies from producing estrogen. This medication is needed in order for them to access cancer treatments such as palbociclib since they need to be post-menopausal to receive these treatments.  But women living in British Columbia are being told that in order to receive this cancer treatment they need to have an oophorectomy. An oophorectomy, the surgical removal of both ovaries, is an invasive surgery that can easily be replaced with ovarian-suppression medication.

It’s important that women have the option to choose the ovarian suppression option that is right for them. Women shouldn’t be forced to have surgery that they don’t want if there is an alternative option.

This needs to change.

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