The Cancer Control Agency’s analysis of the gap between Australia and New Zealand in funding 18 selected medicines with substantial clinical benefit is a welcome way of drawing attention to the plight of NZ cancer patients desperate for treatments that are funded across the Tasman, but not here, says Myeloma NZ Chief Executive Dr Ken Romeril
“It doesn’t actually feel fair that if I’m gonna die, I have to be locked in my house for the next few years," cancer patient Nichola Oakenfull says.