Australian children with a rare form of cancer known as neuroblastoma will no longer need to spend $500,000 and travel to the US for treatment, as the federal government agrees to cover costs immediately while the drug gets local approvals.
The Commonwealth will fund interim arrangements to make a medication to treat neuroblastoma freely available in Australia.Hospitals will be able to make the medication available almost immediately, as an interim measure while it awaits PBS approval.
Luna's family and others had pleaded for access to a promising medication that could help to treat the cancer, but which was exorbitantly expensive and not yet approved in Australia.Parents are hoping the government could help with millions of dollars so they can travel to access the drug while Australia's regulators consider its use at home.
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