Australia has become one of the latest countries to register the cancer drug that former Melbourne lord mayor Ron Walker credits with saving his life.
Patient Stories
Approval of drug PD-1 a breakthrough for melanoma sufferers
IT is the wonderful news thousands of people have been waiting for.
A potentially lifesaving cancer PD-1 drug has finally been given the green light for use by Australian patients suffering melanoma.
It is the so-called wonder drug credited with saving the life of Melbourne businessman Ron Walker and which was tragically denied to the late Nick Auden.
Alannah Hill planned to keep her cancer a secret – then she changed her mind
By shooing her dog with her foot – and breaking a bone in the process – Alannah Hill may have saved her life. Instead of kicking the air, she thumped her toe into a heavy Victorian skirting board. When she went to get the throbbing digit mended, her doctor frowned at the brown speck on top of it and ordered a biopsy.
Monash University scholarship named in honour of late Nick Auden
AMY Auden misses her husband Nick every day.But with three young children, and as the go-to person for comment on melanoma and compassionate use of drugs, she knows she has to get on with life.
Amy’s late husband Nick was the man at the centre of the heartbreaking Save Locky’s Dad campaign, which pushed for pharmaceutical companies to allow people with late-stage melanoma to have access to breakthrough medication.