Cancer

News that the Government had done little legwork on its promise of cancer drug funding comes as no surprise to Auckland medical oncologist George Laking

A University of Otago research team led by specialist GP Sue Crengle hopes to have an equitable lung cancer screening pathway ready to go in four years

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon contemplated “working outside the Pharmac system” to implement the National Party’s election promise to fund 13 cancer treatments that were available in Australia, but not New Zealand

A 2022 REPORT on access to cancer drugs was never meant to be used to provide a list of medicines that should be funded, Cancer Control Agency Te Aho o Te Kahu chief executive Rami Rahal says.

Government ministers are rushing for cover in the wake of widespread criticism of the Budget’s failure to deliver on an election promise of funding for 13 cancer drugs

The lack of additional investment in New Zealand’s medicines budget, especially the failure to announce the funding of 13 cancer-drug treatments promised before the election is extremely disappointing

DURING THE ELECTION, the National Party pledged to fund 13 cancer treatments if elected. But New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa understands at least six have already been, or recommended to be, declined or haven’t even been registered with Pharmac for approval. 

A National Government will pay for 13 cancer treatments that are helping extend survival rates in Australia, by making them available to patients in New Zealand, National Leader Christopher Luxon says.

Treatments for cancer will soon be at the same level as those used on HIV and COVID-19, says David Thomas, principal research fellow and chief executive of Australian genomic cancer medicine centre Omico

A prostate cancer patient has become the first person in New Zealand to receive radiation treatment using ground-breaking new radiation technology