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Potentially life saving cancer drug added to Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

Patient Alison Beninati (insert) Ninos Emmanuel

Source: AAP, SBS

A potentially life-saving cancer medicine that patients must self-fund at a cost of more than 200-thousand dollars, is being made available on prescription. The move brings down the cost to less than forty-dollars, every three weeks. It's one of five new drugs added to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

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