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	Podcast:		Checkpoint
	Episode:		Infusion centres not solution - cancer survivor
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:06:59
	Publish Date:		2026-04-14 05:08:00
	Description:		The government is opening 14 new infusion centres around the country, where patients can get chemotherapy and other therapies. It's also expanding 14 existing infusion centres. The Health Minister said a boost in Pharmac funding that same year is delivering 66 new medicines including 33 cancer treatments, increasing the need for infusions. Triple negative breast cancer survivor, Catherine Cooke, slammed the anouncement saying without medications like Keytruda, funded for early stage cancers, more infusion centres are not the solution and patients are being driven into debt to survive. Cooke spoke to Lisa Owen.
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