Election Issues for Australians affected by cancer: Cancer Voices has contacted the major political parties, seeking their response to the five top priorities which resulted from the Australian Cancer Consumer Network (ACCN) Survey of late 2015. Political parties’ responses will be published on our website. ACCN priorities are:
Getting better and quicker access to cancer treatments: timing of approvals for new cancer drugs and thei subsidies is slow and lacks transparency. the consumer voice is not sufficiently heard in the process.
Greater access to clinical trials with more trials aviailable and more funding for trials here in Australia.
Cancer nurse/care coordinators/patient navigators: cancer centres need to be able to fund the appropriate number and cancer-type positions to underpin this role.
Access to drugs for less common cancers and improvements to access to off-lable drugs for less common and rare cancers, where clinical trials may never happen, yet there is evidence of benefit.
More information about treatment outcomes: treatment outcomes vary greatly across different centres. we need a national cancer data registry so that treatment and outcomes can be tracked and reviewed across treatment centres, informaton which should be publicly available for informed choices.
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