Women who feared losing vital cancer treatment offered new hope

Women who feared losing vital cancer treatment offered new hope

Women with breast cancer who were left languishing in PBS drug uncertainty have been offered a lifeline.

Breast cancer patients offered PBS lifeline after removal of lifesaving drug Zoladex

Women with breast cancer left contemplating drastic surgery because of uncertainty over a critical drug have been offered a lifeline, with an equivalent medication on track to be subsidised. The move is set to provide a long-term treatment solution to breast cancer and endometriosis patients who have grappled with uncertainty in recent months over access to the drug Zoladex. As revealed by the ABC in June, AstraZeneca, the maker of the goserelin…