8 May 2017 - The frightening cost of non-PHARMAC funded cancer treatments has prompted the country's largest health insurer to launch a new form of cancer insurance.

Cancer drugs can be prohibitively expensive without PHARMAC funding, and Southern Cross Health Society's Chris Watney said: "We know our members, and the public, have some anxiety around the non-PHARMAC funded drugs."

So the not-for-profit insurer has unveiled Cancer Assist, which its health insurance policyholders can add as an optional extra onto their existing cover to insure against the risk of contracting a cancer best treated using drugs not yet funded by PHARMAC.

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