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      Home > News > Health & Safety

    First steps are locked in for delivering a Government campaign promise to fund more cancer drugs

    First steps are locked in for delivering a Government campaign promise to fund more cancer drugs


    Pharmac says from October, Keytruda will be funded for eligible people with five different types of cancer - at different points in their treatment.

    Prime Minister Chris Luxon says from November, the drug buying agency will fund Opdivo - which treats kidney cancer.

    He says it's expected about 600 extra eligible people will have access to the two drugs in the first year -- and more than two thousand in the first five years.

    © 2024 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

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