$187,000 to $6.30: Turnbull government subsidy gives hope to cancer sufferers

Updated October 9 2017 - 4:15pm, first published 2:52pm
MILESTONE: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull meets with a nurse on a cancer ward at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. Photo: MICK TSIKAS/ AAP IMAGE
MILESTONE: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull meets with a nurse on a cancer ward at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. Photo: MICK TSIKAS/ AAP IMAGE

Leukaemia experts have welcomed the federal government's move to make a drug that normally costs $187,000 per treatment more easily affordable.

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