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	Podcast:		Checkpoint
	Episode:		Cancer Society on govt expansion of infusion centres
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:08:54
	Publish Date:		2026-04-13 05:12:00
	Description:		More cancer patients will get treatment closer to home with the expansion of infusion centres, according to the government. But the plan could take two and a half years to roll out. The governments opening 14 new infusion centres around the country, where patients can get chemo and other targetted therapies that are given introvenously or through drips into the vein. One west Auckland clinic opens later this week. It's also expanding 14 existing infusion centres. Nicola Coom, chief executive of the Cancer Society spoke to Lisa Owen.
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