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Professor Judith Trotman, chair of the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0Sam Hubel<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Daratumumab, which is funded in more than 45 other countries, has been on Pharmac’s “options for investment” list for years and is considered a high priority drug – meaning it would fund it if it had the money.<\/p>\n Dr Trotman told\u00a0Checkpoint<\/i>\u00a0Australia started funding daratumumab over four years ago.<\/p>\n “I know this because I’ve had so many patients now up to their 50th monthly dose,” she said.<\/p>\n “And yet New Zealanders are are still desperately trying on behalf of New Zealand myeloma patients to get access for it.<\/p>\n “It distresses me greatly that despite the unparalleled media and community focus on the need for modern blood cancer care in Aotearoa, there’s still no funding for daratumumab.”<\/p>\n rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A New Zealand haematologist working in Australia has warned highly trained doctors are being driven offshore, along with patients, because Aotearoa is at least a decade behind in blood cancer treatments. Professor Judith Trotman, chair of the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group, has treated New Zealand patients who purposefully moved across the Tasman to gain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15033,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15030\/revisions\/15033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}