Two cancer-fighting medicines listed on the PBS and now accessible to Australians

30 December 2017 - Medications that can inhibit the growth of two "catastrophic cancers" will next week be made available ...

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Multiple myeloma drug carfilzomib added to PBS

29 December 2017 - A new cancer drug that could drastically extend the life of up to 1700 Australians a ...

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Rare cancer treatment a success for Jie Eccles

9 December 2017 - Six months ago Jie wrote an open letter to the readers of news.com.au asking them to help ...

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The Webster family spent their life savings to save their son Matthew after rare cancer diagnosis

3 December 2017 - When David and Jennifer Webster’s son Matthew was diagnosed with a rare cancer, they didn’t think ...

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Continuing to make new medicines affordable for Australians

1 December 2017 - A new medicine to treat soft tissue sarcoma will be available through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, giving ...

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Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 December 2017 update

1 December 2017 - The December 2017 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...

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Prioritise investment in the PBS to improve access to all cancer medicines

30 November 2017 - Medicines Australia response to the Senate Select Committee report “Funding for Research into Cancers with Low ...

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We don’t need to change how we subsidise ‘breakthrough’ cancer treatments

27 November 2017 - New therapies that arm the immune system to fight cancer, such as Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and Yervoy ...

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'Are you scared of dying, dad?': the constant uncertainty of immunotherapy

22 November 2017 - An intense feeling of foreboding would seize Ian Cant every three months. ...

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Chemotherapy compounder ID mandatory within PBS claims from 1 December 2017

22 November 2017 - From 1 December 2017, approved suppliers (approved pharmacists, approved medical practitioners and approved public and private ...

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New 'powerful' cancer website for doctors

22 November 2017 - Quality national data on cancer in Australia is now available to clinicians via the National Cancer Control ...

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Push to speed up access to treatment for cancer patients

21 November 2017 - Australian cancer patients are waiting twice as long those overseas to get access to life saving ...

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Quentin Bryce in Canberra to support getting breast cancer drug listed on PBS

25 October 2017 - Former governor-general Dame Quentin Bryce has backed efforts to have a life-extending breast cancer drug that ...

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'We took a shot and it worked': Immunotherapy delivering results for cancer sufferers

16 October 2017 - Twenty-six-year-old Sydney engineering student Igor Mileusnic is a strapping picture of health. Two years ago he ...

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Cancer groups want to stop classifying disease by the body part it grows in

16 October 2017 - They are the breakthrough medicines turning cancer from a death sentence into a chronic disease but ...

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