Potentially life-saving cancer drug added to Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

: Patient Alison Beninati holds a box of Keytruda, a medication used to treat Hodgkins lymphoma

Patient Alison Beninati holding a box of Keyruda Source: AAP

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.


Keytruda is an immunotherapy medicine that helps the body use its own immune system to fight certain cancers including Hodgkin Lymphoma.

The 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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