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Lilly counts grim cost of PBS delays
Posted 20 October 2025 PM
It's been hailed as a new era in treatment for breast cancer patients, but the grim reality is that a punishing 650 day wait for a PBS listing for Lilly's Verzenio, left 3500 Australian women without funded access to the drug.
According to seven-year data from the landmark monarchE trial, two years of treatment with Verzenio in combination with endocrine therapy (ET) reduces the relative risk of death by 15.8 per cent compared to ET alone in patients with hormone receptor positive (HR+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (HER2-), node- positive, high-risk early breast cancer.
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Posted 20 October 2025 PM
It's been hailed as a new era in treatment for breast cancer patients, but the grim reality is that a punishing 650 day wait for a PBS listing for Lilly's Verzenio, left 3500 Australian women without funded access to the drug.
According to seven-year data from the landmark monarchE trial, two years of treatment with Verzenio in combination with endocrine therapy (ET) reduces the relative risk of death by 15.8 per cent compared to ET alone in patients with hormone receptor positive (HR+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (HER2-), node- positive, high-risk early breast cancer.
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