30 June 2019 - Cancer patients are waiting up to five years to access life-saving medicines as spending on the Pharmaceutical Benefit Subsidy scheme plummets.

There are now over 30 new medicines for cancer and other conditions reimbursed in most other developed countries that are not yet subsidised in Australia.

And the Cancer Council Australia says many patients are facing an “unacceptable delay” accessing important new drugs and wants changes to speed up access to medicines.

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