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A woman with secondary breast cancer says discontinuing a "wonder drug" like hers to new patients is "criminal".

Thirty-four year old Hayley Kalinins was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer four years ago and has been treated with Kadcyla - a drug soon to to be made unavailable to new patients along with twenty-five others that will be no longer funded on the NHS.

She says that she has "learnt the hard way that it's all about the money - they're not interested in people's lives" and the government need to pay for the expensive drugs because of the quality of life that they provide.

Hayley says that the drug has enabled her to exceed her life expectancy of six months and her stabled condition hasn't caused her to "use up funding" by being admitted to hospital.

The change to the number of cancer treatments offered by the NHS comes after it emerged the £180m Cancer Drugs Fund – for drugs that aren’t routinely available – was to go £100m over budget in 2014/2015.

This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on January 13th 2015.

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