Instead of donations to pharmaceutic firms for the 'fight against Cancer', why not donate Cancer medication?

Instead of donations to pharmaceutic firms for the 'fight against Cancer', why not donate Cancer medication?(GN).

TORONTO – A Hamilton man is being forced to raise the money to pay for his cancer treatments because the drug that he says could help him isn’t covered by OHIP.

Frank Italiano was diagnosed with B Cell Lymphoma in 2008. Doctors found an eight centimetre tumour within his intestines on his left side.

He did chemotherapy until 2012 and lost about 50 pounds, he said.“It withers you down,” he said. “[I’m] tired, [I have] trouble breathing. Some days you feel a little more energy, some days you feel like getting up to do something, but basically tired.”

Now, he’s putting all his effort into getting a new drug he hopes will shrink his tumour. The drug is Adcetris and has been used with some success to fight similar cancers.

But the drug is expensive; approximately $15,000 every three weeks for Italiano. The amount of the drug that a person needs is based on their body weight. Italiano needs just over two vials for each treatment and each vial is $5,000.

“We had some friends and a little bit of savings we had. Some friends chipped in and put enough for another round,” Italiano said. “Hopefully in the end we make it, but I don’t want to leave the family broke either.”
Benenati understands the pressure that’s on Italiano.

“I didn’t want to put my family in bankruptcy to try and gain access to a drug that was showing 75 per cent success rate in relapsed patients. So it was tough,” he said.

Italiano is being forced to pay for the drug himself because OHIP doesn’t pay for the drug despite it being used for other cancers.Read the full story here.

Hmmmm.....In my view it would be better to give donations to a fund for people who can't afford cancer medication.
These pharmaceutical firms have received ENOUGH for 'Cancer research'!
These pharmaceutic firms make billions of Dollars of profit and lets be blunt, They're in the business to make money.
If you would find a cure for cancer do you want to cure them? Loose your income and profits?

I say yes do donate but help the needy not those who make billions of profits!