16 Sep 2025

Cancer patients must move abroad for drugs - Haematologist

From Checkpoint, 5:08 pm on 16 September 2025

A Haematologist believes specialists are being left with no choice but to recommend some cancer patients move to Australia to get life prolonging drugs that are not funded in New Zealand. He said studies show Daratumumab can prolong life and hundreds of New Zealand patients would benefit from it each year. Haematologist, Doctor Rodger Tiedemann spoke to Lisa Owen.