New drug added to PBS to help treat Australia's deadliest cancer

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The drug is an immunotherapy which is effective against non-small-cell lung cancer, offering a potentially effective treatment for thousands of sufferers.

Rhonda Lumsden was suffering from stage 4 lung cancer and out of options, when a new drug gave her a second chance.

“I went on chemo straight away; they gave me the option of surgery to remove the entire left lung, but there was no guarantee that would get it all,” she said. It is so deadly both because the lungs are difficult to treat directly, and because patients often only experience symptoms when the cancer is quite advanced.

“It improves the median survival rate by more than a year, and improves the likelihood of cure as well.”

 

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