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'Don't write us off': advanced breast cancer patients lobby for access to drugs
11 October 2018 - Nicki Ball, who has advanced breast cancer, has signed a petition calling on Pharmac to fund ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Oct 2018
Terminally ill Kiwi mum forced to pay nearly $6,500 a month for unfunded drugs for her lung cancer
10 October 2018 - Karyn Robson and her family are paying $6,000 for her medication but time and funds are running ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Oct 2018
Evidence-based approach to funding choices more important than ever
10 October 2018 - Cancer will affect almost all New Zealanders at some point in their lives. Given the range ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2018
The high cost of living for advanced breast cancer patients
6 October 2018 - Donna MacMillan: ''I feel as if the Government doesn't care whether I live or die. That I ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2018
New Zealand women with advanced breast cancer are dying faster than in other countries
6 October 2018 - Wiki Mulholland, 40 is calling for Ibrance to be funded by PHARMAC so more women can access ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Sep 2018
PHARMAC defends position not to fund bowel cancer drug
14 September 2018 - PHARMAC is defending its position to not fund a drug recommended to patients with late-stage bowel cancer ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Sep 2018
Dying cancer patients refused PHARMAC funding
13 September 2018 - Dying patients who suffer a rare reaction to chemotherapy are having to pay for their own ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Aug 2018
Expensive life-prolonging drug not an option for many women
30 August 2018 - Wiki Mulholland has the toughest of balancing acts – between staying alive and draining her family ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Aug 2018
Woman's desperate plea to PHARMAC to fund $6,000/month cancer drug
31 august 2018 - A New Zealand woman is pleading with pharmaceutical giant PHARMAC and MPs to fund an expensive ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Aug 2018
Battling cancer and fighting for funding
28 August 2018 - Dr Rosalie Stephens turns up to work these days with hope. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2018
Breast cancer sufferer calls for life-saving Kadcyla drug to be publicly funded
13 August 2018 - A cancer sufferer is calling for PHARMAC to fund a potentially life-saving drug. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Aug 2018
Duncan Garner: Dr Clark, this is life or death, please help
11 August 2018 - Health Minister David Clark promised in 2017 to provide cancer patients with world-class treatments. We're not seeing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2018
Desperate plea for increased medicines funding for cancer sufferers
9 August 2018 - The Government must increase funding for medicines desperately needed by people with breast cancer and other ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2018
'Balancing act' needed on unproven cancer drugs - Health Minister David Clark
9 August 2018 - The Health Minister is wary of side-stepping PHARMAC to buy newly developed cancer drugs, saying the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
NZ's cancer death rates worse than Australia's due to medicine inaccessibility - oncologist
7 August 2018 - The number of cancer deaths may increase if the country's approach to the disease isn't urgently ...