Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Nov 2020
Patients in other countries are getting access to breakthrough cancer drugs faster than Aussies
11 November 2020 - Old news and hardly an exclusive.
Cancer patients in Australia are missing out on breakthrough new medicines which are readily available overseas and it all comes down to bureaucratic red tape.
Cancer patients in Australia are missing out on lifesaving new medicines available overseas because it takes four times longer for them to be subsidised here.
An extra 800 cancer patients a year could be treated with breakthrough immunotherapies if the subsidy process was sped up, new research shows.
