Specialist Updates 
Oncology

New PBS indications for cancer drugs

Minister for Health Greg Hunt also announces the addition of a chemo nausea treatment
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30 September 2019
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Minister for Health Greg Hunt. Photo: Steve Christo

Three cancer drugs on the PBS will be listed for additional indications from 1 October and a treatment for nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy has been added.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, announced the new listings. 

They are:

And additional indications have been added by the TGA for two cancer drugs:

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