14 September 2020 - Doctors are amazed by a new cancer medicine offering Australian kids a new lease on life, but doctors now worry that desperate parents won’t be able to access the costly treatment.

Eight year old Jaxon Hach had just months to live, but is walking and talking again after a “revolutionary” new medicine began to reverse his terminal cancer.

The Lego master was diagnosed and treated for a brain stem cancer at 18 months of age but his cancer returned shortly before Christmas last year and his prognosis was not good.

That was until genetic testing of his cancer revealed he carried an NTRK gene fusion that could be targeted by an experimental new treatment called Vitrakvi.

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