Medicine agency recommends listing of life-saving drugs for Australian men with deadly forms of prostate cancer

Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia

17 December 2021 - Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia has welcomed recommendations by Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee to list two life-extending drugs for men with aggressive forms of potentially deadly prostate cancer.

The agency has recommended the listing of apalutamide (Erlyand) and olaparib (Lynparza).

Read Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia press release

Michael Wonder

Posted by:

Michael Wonder