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RSS FeedPosted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2018
Rejected by the Government, I've spent $160,000 just to keep myself alive
25 March 2018 - Jess Spence currently pays for her Neuroendocrine cancer treatment in Melbourne, Australia. PHARMAC are still to decide ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Mar 2018
Cancer sufferers want Oz treatments: 'I want to live'
7 March 2018 - A Tauranga woman with terminal breast cancer has had to fundraise over $100,000 to pay for a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Feb 2018
New insights on PHARMAC's tardiness in funding Keytruda for patients with NSCLC
21 February 2018 - The minutes from the November 2017 PTAC meeting note further information from MSD, submitted in response ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Feb 2018
Minutes from November 2017 PTAC meeting provide interesting insights on Roche's submission for Kadcyla
21 February 2018 - The minutes need to be read carefully as they start with a subcommittee outcome. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Feb 2018
New Zealand cancer survival rate worse than Australia's
19 February 2018 - About 2500 New Zealanders would have beaten cancer in the last five years if they had ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Feb 2018
Cancer patients waiting a year for Keytruda funding decision from PHARMAC
12 February 2018 - Hundreds of lung cancer patients whose lives could be saved by a new treatment labelled a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jan 2018
PHARMAC approves funding for treatment for 'mighty Mon'
14 January 2018 - A woman fighting cancer for the third time - and who was told she may only ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jan 2018
Significant step forward for treating people with head and neck cancer
21 December 2018 - Funding cetuximab for patients with head and neck cancer will be a significant advance for treating ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2017
Decision to fund cetuximab for head and neck cancer
20 December 2017 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce our decision to fund cetuximab (Erbitux) from 1 February 2018 for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Dec 2017
Cancer patients in New Zealand waiting months for treatment as hospitals struggle to cope
13 December 2017 - Cancer patients around the country are waiting months to receive their first bout of potentially life-saving ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2017
Miracle drug keeping Eva McGauley's cancer at bay
10 December 2017 - Terminally ill teenager Eva McGauley is appealing for help to pay for a life-saving new cancer drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Nov 2017
Auckland mum is having to self-fund drugs to extend her life
28 November 2017 - All Megan Casey wants to do is see her children get married and be a grandmother. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Nov 2017
New Zealand cancer patients renew call for more funded medicines, as report reveals 682 million dollar 'hole'
22 November 2017 - Cancer patients say they are sick of paying for their own survival after an independent report ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Nov 2017
'Mind the gap' revisited
6 November 2017 - John Zalcberg and I note with interest the article by Evans et al recently published in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2017
Missing out on cancer drugs
12 October 2017 - A letter to the Editor of the New Zealand Herald from the Managing Director of MSD ...