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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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jun 2018
PBS push for stage-three melanoma drug
25 June 2018 - After witnessing family members succumb to cancer, Melbourne man Peter Gourlay was determined to do whatever ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jun 2018
Bob Katter wants Keytruda added to PBS
22 June 2018 - With breast cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma drugs added to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Kennedy MP Bob ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jun 2018
Australian Stage 3 melanoma patients forced to self-fund recurrent treatment while PBS makes decision on listing
21 June 2018 - An Australian man has described the staggering decision to pay $100,000 for a treatment that could mean ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jun 2018
Rule out chemotherapy for early breast cancer - but first take a $5,000 test
4 June 2018 - There is good news for women with early breast cancer, but for Australians it comes at ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2018
Cancer-killing CAR T-cell immunotherapy to become more accessible to patients
29 May 2018 - Cancer patients would have access to an off-the-shelf immunotherapies to reprogram their immune system to fight ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 May 2018
New melanoma guidelines recommend $150,000 a year treatment that’s not subsidised
25 May 2018 - Sweeping changes to medical guidelines for melanoma could halve the rate at which the cancer recurs ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 May 2018
August 2018 PBAC special meeting - invitation for submissions open and background paper available
21 May 2018 - PD-1 and PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapies: options for subsidy consideration for multiple cancer types. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 May 2018
Hoping and praying Prime Minister will promise to deliver on prostate cancer
16 May 2018 - Across Australia, hundreds of men with advanced prostate cancer are praying that a brief encounter with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Apr 2018
Man, 31, dying of cancer is forced to pay thousands for miracle drug
23 April 2018 - A 31-year-old Sydney man with terminal cancer is being forced to pay thousands of dollars for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2018
Government subsidises two $5000/month breast cancer drugs
21 April 2018 - Women fighting breast cancer will no longer face treatment bills in the tens of thousands of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Apr 2018
Listing of life-saving cancer medicine to save patients more than $200,000
16 April 2018 - The Turnbull Government will drastically reduce the cost of a life-saving new medicine, which uses a patient’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Apr 2018
Hodgkin's patients have Keytruda cost cut
15 April 2018 - Patients with a form of Hodgkin lymphoma will have the cost of a breakthrough drug slashed ...