18 Sep 2025

Cancer patients going overseas to access treatments

From Checkpoint, 5:08 pm on 18 September 2025

A former top cop has joined a number of Kiwi blood cancer patients seeking cutting edge therapy overseas, as wait times grow for standard stem cell treatment in New Zealand. Stuart Lye was diagnosed in 2018 and fundraised to go to China for treatment. Stuart Lye spoke to Lisa Owen.