Potentially life-saving cancer medicine now available on prescription

A box of Keyruda, a medication used to treat Hodgkin?s lymphoma.

A box of Keyruda, a medication used to treat Hodgkin?s 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.


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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