Canadians can wait years to get drugs regulators have already deemed safe. Why? | Unpublished
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Author: Kelly Grant, Chris Hannay
Publication Date: October 31, 2025 - 05:00

Canadians can wait years to get drugs regulators have already deemed safe. Why?

October 31, 2025

It was nearly two years ago when an oncologist first told Jas Velic that his best hope of surviving aggressive blood cancer was CAR-T therapy, a cutting-edge treatment that would genetically alter some of his own white blood cells to attack his cancer.

Unlike the punishing regimen of weekly chemotherapy keeping the 43-year-old father of two alive, CAR-T therapy is given as a single infusion.



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