Ontario cancer patient shocked after learning she has been overpaying for medication
TORONTO -- A cancer patient from Brighten, Ont. has been taking the same medication for years, but when she recently switched pharmacies she was shocked to find out the same drug was much cheaper. “The actual drug itself was $20 dollars more at the drugstore I had been using for the past four years,” Pam Pherrill told CTV News Toronto. Pherrill takes the generic drug Letrozole and will have to continue to take it in the future. As a breast cancer survivor, Pherrill said she is doing well on her road to recovery. “Letrozole is supposed to stop the cancer from spreading further ...