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Potentially life saving cancer drug added to Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

Alison Beninati ashika dawa ya Keytruda inayo tumiwa kutibu ugonjwa wa Hodgkins Lymphoma

Alison Beninati ashika dawa ya Keytruda inayo tumiwa kutibu ugonjwa wa Hodgkins Lymphoma 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.


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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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