5 March 2026 - A North Queensland mother has travelled to Canberra to beg the Federal Government to save her son’s life, as a “bureaucratic maze” keeps a vital cancer drug out of reach.

Debbie Gibson and her son, Clinton James, visited Parliament House on Wednesday to demand that selpercatinib, a targeted treatment for medullary thyroid cancer, be listed on the PBS.

Without the subsidy, the drug costs Mr James approximately up to $16,000/month.

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