Published: 8:20PM Sunday August 12, 2007
Source: Newstalk ZB
Women with breast cancer now have another funded drug treatment
available.
Under a new agreement Exemestane will be fully funded from
August 1 without the need for a special authority approval.
Pharmac medical director Dr Peter Moodie says it is slightly different from Herceptin in that Herceptin is used in the initial treatment of breast cancer, whereas Exemestane is used for some years after the original chemotherapy.
Moodie says it works by blocking the growth of hormone-dependent
tumours by lowering the amount of oestrogen in the body.
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