Blood cancer specialists say NZ lagging behind with treatments
The Health Minister has agreed to meet with a group of blood cancer specialists who wrote an open letter expressing their alarm at Kiwi patients dying unecessarily because Aotearoa is lagging behind with treatments. The dozens of doctors, nurses and clinician reseachers say New Zealand blood cancer patients are being deprived of modern, targetted, funded, go to treatments, that are available globally; including the myeloma drug, Daratumumab. Professor Judith Trotman is the Chair of the Australasian Leukaemia Lymphoma Research Group and an expat Kiwi-Australian haematolgist in Sydney she spoke to Lisa Owen.
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