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A National Cancer Agency w/ Adele Gautier: July 28, 2019

A National Cancer Agency w/ Adele Gautier: July 28, 2019

A National Cancer Agency w/ Adele Gautier: July 28, 2019 A National Cancer Agency w/ Adele Gautier: July 28, 2019, 7.26 MB
Monday, July 29, 2019

Simon Bridges has just proposed a National Cancer Agency if his party is elected to government, with a dedicated $50M a year to be spent on cancer drugs. With Pharmac increasingly facing criticism for failing to procure effective cancer therapies that are readily available overseas, and with our standards of cancer treament lagging behind other developed countries, Rahul talks to the Breast Cancer Foundation's Adele Gautier about whether National's plan is the answer.