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Time for Decisive Action on Prostate Cancer
Time for Decisive Action on Prostate Cancer: Response to
Labour Announcement on Cancer Care
Every year 3,000 men
in this country are diagnosed with prostate cancer and 600
die – more men are diagnosed with prostate cancer than
women diagnosed with breast cancer– and the Prostate
Cancer Foundation believes Kiwi men are being short-changed
when it comes to diagnosis and treatment.
Graeme Woodside, Prostate Cancer Foundation CEO said, “We applaud any party or organisation striving to improve funding and access to testing and treatment services for New Zealanders facing cancer. “
“Given that prostate cancer is the most
common cancer amongst our men, we need to ask why there is
no free, structured testing programme and a number of
innovative treatments and medications are not available.
Hold ups with current initiatives including the Prostate
Cancer AQIP Programme are having a significant impact. The
Programme promised big changes such as better access to good
primary care, easier access to treatment, better
post-treatment care, and more effective palliative care, but
is yet to have lift-off so we need to hold the Government,
Ministry of Health and GP’s accountable.”
The
annual Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand conference
was held this weekend in Auckland and attended by over 200
medical experts, sufferers and survivors, advocates and
support service representatives.
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