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**** Nick Auden's plea for cancer drug ****

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Nick Auden, a Melbourne-born father of three, is in a heart breaking position. He has been told advanced melanoma will claim his life within months and that his only chance to live lies in two experimental drugs he cannot access.

In a race against time, Mr Auden’s family has launched a website called "Save Locky’s Dad", a video on YouTube and a petition on Change.Org to get two multibillion-dollar drug companies – Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb – to give him compassionate access to their new ‘‘anti PD-1’’ drugs.

Within two weeks, the petition has been signed by nearly 25,000 people and has reached comedians Ricky Gervais and Sarah Silverman, who have both shared it on social media.

http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/stars-back-melanoma--sufferer-nick-audens-plea-for-cancer-drug-20130905-2t6ry.html?skin=text-only

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    This topic is very close to home for me as I lost my father to melanoma cancer just over four years ago.

    Its not easy to watch a loved one die with this disease.

    Good luck to the facility with getting access to the drug trial.

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    This topic is very close to home for me as I lost my father to melanoma cancer just over four years ago.

    Its not easy to watch a loved one die with this disease.

    Good luck to the facility with getting access to the drug trial.

    wow, I'm sorry to hear that mate..

    I lost mine to Mitral Valve heart complications, about 14 years back. they did the grafts Op', but didn't do the valve.... never really fully recovered from the surgery, because of the valve. fluid in the lungs.

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    Thank mate

    Sorry to hear your story as well

    My Dad would have loved the Freo game so far as he was a member

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    For those that have not been following this petition has now over 350,000 signatures. I played footy with Nick for a number of years and he is a champion bloke. He deserves a crack at these drugs to buy himself some valuable time and if you have not yet had the chance please sign up to support his cause.

    http://www.change.org/SaveNick

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3teA62o5eLY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3teA62o5eLY

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    For those that have not been following this petition has now over 350,000 signatures. I played footy with Nick for a number of years and he is a champion bloke. He deserves a crack at these drugs to buy himself some valuable time and if you have not yet had the chance please sign up to support his cause.

    http://www.change.org/SaveNick

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3teA62o5eLY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3teA62o5eLY

    Sorry to hear that you know Nick as this is a terrible illness that causes a loss of dignity and independence in the final stages.

    Normally I would be very critical of anyone using their children in a campaign like this, but knowing how he is likely to end up, I can understand why they have done it that way.

    It was very sad for my family to loss a cousin to cancer on her birthday when she had two children under the age of four.

    Unfortunately even if he gets in the trail who to say he would not be in the test sample group and still not actually get the drug. But defiantly worth a shot as at this stage he has nothing to lose.

    Where there is life there is always hope.

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