Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
NZ's cancer death rates worse than Australia's due to medicine inaccessibility - oncologist
7 August 2018 - The number of cancer deaths may increase if the country's approach to the disease isn't urgently addressed.
Australian oncologist Professor John Zalcberg will speak at a Parliamentary Dinner on Wednesday about why he believes our survival rates are falling behind Australia's.
He told The AM Show lots of factors are behind the different survival rates, but lack of access to medicines is a big one.
