CDK4/6 inhibitors PBS
Hi, Can someone share their experience or knowledge of who can access CDK4/6 inhibitors? I’m trying to establish what my situation would be in the current PBS environment if I became stage 4. I am ...
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Hi @Giovanna_BCNA,
thank you for clearing this up, I am fortunate that my oncologist got me on to a patient access program for abermaciclib, I am also on fasloidex injections as well which I have had to pay for, it just seems so unfair that these drugs are available and yet, to only a few, I was getting to the end of the road in terms of what was left for me to try and my markers were going up and up, thank goodness my oncologist was able to get this drug for me and my markers are coming down so it does work, it does have side effects like all the other drugs but they are manageable, thank goodness for gastro stop!!
How do we go about getting this drug made available for women who are much later on in treatment?
It just seems so unfair that some can have it for next to nothing and yet others have to pay $7.000 per month, this smells of discrimination!!!
wendy55
thank you for clearing this up, I am fortunate that my oncologist got me on to a patient access program for abermaciclib, I am also on fasloidex injections as well which I have had to pay for, it just seems so unfair that these drugs are available and yet, to only a few, I was getting to the end of the road in terms of what was left for me to try and my markers were going up and up, thank goodness my oncologist was able to get this drug for me and my markers are coming down so it does work, it does have side effects like all the other drugs but they are manageable, thank goodness for gastro stop!!
How do we go about getting this drug made available for women who are much later on in treatment?
It just seems so unfair that some can have it for next to nothing and yet others have to pay $7.000 per month, this smells of discrimination!!!
wendy55