Guyon Espiner reveals how lung cancer patients are buying cut-price drugs from India, as other New Zealanders fundraise, petition and apply for...
Myeloma NZ
Early Treatment for Smoldering Multiple Myeloma
Smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) is an asymptomatic clonal plasma cell disorder and is described as an intermediate stage between monoclonal...
Lenalidomide Offers Patients With Smoldering Myeloma Option to Prevent Progression
Lenalidomide (Revlimid) significantly reduced the risk for smoldering multiple myeloma to progress to cancer among patients with moderate to high...
Living well with Myeloma
This guide is written for people who have been diagnosed with myeloma. It will also be helpful for their families, friends and health professionals....
More protests likely says cancer sufferer
“More protest action is on the cards if this government isn’t prepared to give Pharmac more money “, said mother of three Joy Wilkie of Ngati...
Multiple Myeloma Imaging Strategies
Multiple myeloma is a disease characterized by the proliferation of plasma cells which can lead to the abnormally high production of monoclonal...
Minimal residual disease status prognostic for PFS in myeloma
Minimal residual disease status appeared prognostic for PFS at three specific time points for patients with multiple myeloma, according to results...
BCMA CAR-T bb2121 Appears to Be Safe and Effective in Multiple Myeloma
An investigational BCMA-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell (CAR-T) therapy, bb2121, appeared safe and effective for previously treated...
Blood cancer patients advocate pleads for funding for new treatments
Patient advocacy group Myeloma New Zealand has joined forces with other patient groups to petition Parliament to approve funding for...
Another march towards Pharmac funding
Originally published on Te ao The Medavivors breast cancer survivors group today took another step towards gaining government funding for cancer...
Petition calls on government to fund more lung cancer medications
This story was originally published on RNZ A woman whose husband died of lung cancer last year is delivering a petition to parliament calling on the...
Hundreds march on Parliament demanding government funding for cancer drugs
Originally published on Stuff For the past year Wiki Mulholland has been fighting to extend her life – and the lives of others with advanced breast...