Public patients denied access to cancer drugs available to those in private care

Public patients are being denied access to life-saving cancer drugs that are now available to private patients, it has been revealed.

VHI patients will now have access to breast cancer drug Pertuzumab and immunotherapies such as Tecentriq , Keytruda and Opdivo . But now, VHI has made the drugs available to their private patients - which is “troubling” and unprecedented, according to Prof Crown, who works at St Vincent’s Hospital in South Dublin.

“For me, and for all of us, it is very troubling, because it has never ever happened to me in 26 years in this country, where I could look at a public patient and say, there is something that is available to private patients, but it is not available to you.Dr Crown says this unprecedented situation has now created a dilemma for oncologists around the country, and for their patients.

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