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Author: Kelly Grant, Chris Hannay
Publication Date: November 3, 2025 - 06:00
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Myeloma patients launch campaign advocating for immunotherapy pricing talks to resume
November 3, 2025
Nearly 1,000 Canadians with multiple myeloma and their caregivers have e-mailed elected officials asking that pricing talks resume for a cutting-edge immunotherapy that Health Canada approved nearly three years ago but which still isn’t available in this country.
The letter writers are pleading with the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance, the organization that negotiates confidential discounts on drug prices on behalf of provinces and territories, to cut a deal for Carvykti, a bespoke, one-time-only infusion for the aggressive blood cancer.
More cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed at Stage 4 in recent years compared with about a decade earlier, a development that experts behind a new study suggest could be linked with official recommendations discouraging the use of a hotly debated screening test.The prostate-specific antigen test is a simple blood test that can serve as an early warning signal of cancer in men with no symptoms. But the test also has risks: It can lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of slow-growing prostate tumours that might never have caused harm had they remained undiscovered. For that reason, a...
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