Quebec woman wonders why shes being asked to pay thousands for cancer medication – Montreal [Video]

Forty-two year-old Laval resident Jessie Putre isn’t shy about showing her mastectomy scar publicly because wants people to see what can happen if they delay getting a mammogram.

“I was actually told, ‘I wouldn’t worry about it, you’re young, you’re healthy,’ ” she says, claiming that’s what her family doctor told her last year when she asked for the exam, given her family’s history.

Then in spring of 2024 she found a lump in her right breast. On March 13, she was diagnosed with HER-2 positive, an aggressive and recurring form of cancer. She says her surgeon urged her to get an operation as soon as possible.

“From what they could see in the ultrasound it had started to spread into my lymph nodes,” she explains. “I have invasive ductal carcinoma. It had spread like a spider’s web across my breast, nine centimetres horizontally and seven centimetres vertically.”

Given wait times …