Australia Prostate cancer treatment 'too costly'

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MEN with prostate cancer are disadvantaged as they try to access an expensive chemotherapy drug, which is listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme only for women, a urologist says.

Men without health insurance are struggling to afford the drug, Taxotere (docetaxel), which could help save their lives.

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