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Drug treatment for rare blood cancer will save more lives
20 September 2018 - A drug aimed at treating an aggressive disease that affects the blood and bone marrow is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Sep 2018
Blood cancer drugs added to PBS
14 September 2018 - The Federal Government is spending $48 million to provide more affordable drugs for Australians with blood ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Aug 2018
Life saving cancer drug Keytruda worth $150,000 goes on the PBS
19 August 2018 - Melbourne academic and lung cancer patient John Burke has spent $80,000 on the drug that saved ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Aug 2018
Cancer patients wait 18 months for treatment
17 August 2018 - Australian cancer patients are being forced to wait up to 18 months for affordable access to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Aug 2018
Call for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to include subsidies for more rare cancer treatments
14 August 2018 - Oncologists say thousands of cancer patients are either missing out on medication or being forced to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2018
Calls to make cancer drugs more affordable
14 August 2018 - Cancer patients and oncologists are calling for more cancer drugs to be subsidised on the PBS amid ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2018
Melbourne man spends $80,000 on the miracle cancer drug that saved his life
13 August 2018 - Diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer in 2017, John Burke should, in his words, be “gone ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Aug 2018
August 2018 PBAC special meeting – public submissions now available
10 August 2018 - Public submissions to the August 2018 PBAC meeting regarding PD-1 and PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapies: options for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jul 2018
MAESTrO Snapshot - August 2018
1 August 2018 - The second issue looks at today's listing of nivolumab (Opdivo) on the PBS for the treatment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Jul 2018
PBS listing puts Opdivo within financial reach of cancer patients
27 July 2018 - Australians with head and neck cancer will from next week have affordable access to an immuno-oncology ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jul 2018
$250 million investment in life changing cancer medicines
15 July 2018 - The Australian Government will invest $250 million to make four life-changing cancer medicines available to thousands of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2018
Life-saving drug subsidies for thousands of patients battling rare cancers
15 July 2018 - When dietitian Nathalie Cook discovered she had a rare blood cancer almost a decade ago, the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jul 2018
ACT cancer patients have been slugged with an unfair fee. Until now.
3 July 2018 - The ACT Government has promised to scrap the chemotherapy co-payment ACT cancer patients are "unfairly" slugged ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jul 2018
A drug that elongates life in breast cancer patients listed on PBS today - but only for some
1 July 2018 - They are two women from the same city who have exactly the same deadly disease. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jun 2018
Price of breast cancer drug ribociclib cut after being placed on Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
30 June 2018 - The breast cancer drug ribociclib has been placed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, taking the price from ...