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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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Apr 2018
Chemotherapy compounder ID mandatory within PBS claims
12 April 2018 - The inclusion of the Compounder ID field within a claim for eligible Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS) ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Apr 2018
The cost of cancer to Australia's economy
7 April 2018 - When breast cancer survivor Margie Foumakis was told she couldn’t come back to work part-time after ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Apr 2018
Perth dad’s desperate bid to fund $100k life-saving drug for son
3 April 2018 - Exhausted, weak and sick all the time. That's how Perth teenager Trent Gibbons has spent the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Feb 2018
Terminal cancer patient denied access to life-extending chemo drug
25 February 2018 - A chemotherapy drug called Velcade made Dan Gaffney's death from terminal cancer seem a little further ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Feb 2018
A real world example of coverage with evidence development in Australia - ipilimumab for the treatment of metastatic melanoma
13 February 2018 - Australian Government subsidisation of ipilimumab for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma was conditional on the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Feb 2018
August 2018 PBAC special meeting
19 February 2018 - Options for listing of pan-tumour indications for PDL-1 cancer immunotherapies on the PBS. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Feb 2018
Win for cancer patients may be end to chemotherapy as immunotherapies fast-tracked
19 February 2018 - Chemotherapy could become a thing of the past for up to two in three cancer patients ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jan 2018
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 January 2018 update
1 January 2018 - The January 2018 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Dec 2017
Two cancer-fighting medicines listed on the PBS and now accessible to Australians
30 December 2017 - Medications that can inhibit the growth of two "catastrophic cancers" will next week be made available ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Dec 2017
Multiple myeloma drug carfilzomib added to PBS
29 December 2017 - A new cancer drug that could drastically extend the life of up to 1700 Australians a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2017
Rare cancer treatment a success for Jie Eccles
9 December 2017 - Six months ago Jie wrote an open letter to the readers of news.com.au asking them to help ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Dec 2017
The Webster family spent their life savings to save their son Matthew after rare cancer diagnosis
3 December 2017 - When David and Jennifer Webster’s son Matthew was diagnosed with a rare cancer, they didn’t think ...