It's expected about 2300 people will have the new drugs funded in the next five years.

To address this, the government has allocated Pharmac its largest-ever budget of $6.294 billion over the next four years.

Two new cancer drugs will be funded in the next two months as part of the Government’s $604 million boost to the budget of New Zealand’s drug-buying agency ...

Pharmac’s Director of Pharmaceuticals, Geraldine MacGibbon, says Pharmac is really pleased to announce our first decision for cancer medicines since the Government provided additional funding in June ...

Pharmac estimates 1000 more people will access these treatments in the first year of funding, and 4500 in the first five years.