Game-changing drugs for people with lung cancer.
Pharmac has announced its funding of Keytruda and Tecentriq.
Those with locally advanced and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer are able to access it from next month.
The disease is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in New Zealand.
Director of operations Lisa Williams told Mike Hosking there hasn't been treatment for lung cancer in New Zealand like this.
She says they're a new kind of immune checkpoint inhibitors, which will benefit around 700 people each year.
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