New breakthrough in HR+ & hormone therapy for breast cancer

yes you would think so, however that is the criteria for these drugs if you have metastic breast cancer, and you have previously had chemotherapy then you are not entitled to these drugs,you can purchase palbociclib for approximately $5000. per month, which is out of range for me, I wrote a letter to Greg Hunt the Federal Health Minister and explained my situation and as far as I was concerned it was so unfair that I or other women coulod not access this drug, to me it is discrimination, they just have drawn a line in the sand and said this is the criteria and no exceptions,so where do you go from there, I will stay on my current chemotherapy of Xeloda which is oral} as is{ palbociclib} for as long as it continues to work, put up with the side effects and hope that in the near future, these pharmaceutical companies will change their minds, or the government will be able to put pressure on them to change the rules, until then we just have to keep fighting, the drugs are there we just cannot access them, its ridiculous that they have all these different criteria for these drugs, which if they didn't , would improve the lives of so many women, not just with palbociclib but there are so many others, which one person can get but another person cannot, go figure!!! because I sure as hell cant.
wendy55