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Singapore, 18 February 2019: A NEW breast cancer drug shown to significantly reduce the risk of cancer recurrence is being made available to women in Singapore from today via a Special Access Program. The drug, NERLYNX (neratinib) is an oral medication taken by women with HER2+ breast cancer who have completed adjuvant trastuzumab-based therapy. NERLYNX has been shown

Singapore, 11 December 2018: Australian multiple myeloma patients will have world-first access to a new first-in-class drug developed to treat the disease, following approval by Australian regulatory authorities. The drug, APLIDIN (plitidepsin) will be available to patients who have failed or are resistant to other therapies, after the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) decision to approve APLIDIN

Singapore, 2 November 2018: Independent pharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics (ST) has struck a new agreement with specialty pharmacy services group Pharmacy Phusion to assist with the distribution and patient support for a new medicine that treats HER2 overexpressing early-stage breast cancer. Under the terms of the agreement, patients prescribed this new breast cancer treatment by

Melbourne, Australia 27 August 2018: Privately-held pharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics Australia will today mark its 10th anniversary, unveiling new Australian headquarters and a business plan to drive healthcare innovation over the next decade. The company, which was founded  ten years ago by pharmaceutical expats Carlo Montagner and Bozena Zembrzuski with a single chemotherapy product, has

Singapore, 5 April 2018: Specialised Therapeutics Asia today announces the initiation of an early access program for neratinib, an extended adjuvant treatment for early-stage HER2-positive (HER2+) breast cancer. Under this Special Access Program (SAP) select patients in Australia will be provided access to the medicine, where appropriate and when permitted by relevant regulatory authorities. The

Oncotype DX® breast cancer assay may spare thousands of women from chemotherapy Medical Services Advisory Committee has now rejected five funding applications for Oncotype DX   Melbourne, Australia, 4 October 2017: THE Federal Government’s peak advisory committee for Medicare funding has rejected calls from doctors, patients and the pharma industry to fund a novel breast cancer test

Auckland, New Zealand, 31 May 2017:  A 33 year old Wellington mother of two has become the first New Zealand patient to be treated with a novel brain cancer visualisation drug that ‘lights up’ tumours during surgery to enable more complete removal of the malignant tissue.   GLIOLAN® (aminolevulenic acid: ALA) is taken as a drink three

Singapore, Melbourne and Auckland, 28 April 2017: A NOVEL drug which ‘lights up’ malignant brain tumours to help surgeons more thoroughly resect the cancer tissue will be widely available to New Zealand patients from 1 June, after a leading neurosurgeon applied for its reimbursement. The drug, GLIOLAN (aminolevulinic acid HCl), assists neurosurgeons to more completely remove malignant

Melbourne, Australia and Hamburg, Germany, November 2013: A novel drug which assists neurosurgeons to better visualise and remove malignant brain tumours has been approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). Until now, GLIOLAN (aminolevulinic acid HCl) has only been available via the Federal Government’s Special Access Scheme (SAS).  It will now be made widely available for

MELBOURNE, Australia – April 26, 2013 – An effective new antibiotic designed to specifically treat the common superbug* infection Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea will be available to patients in Australia from 14th May 2013. Melbourne biopharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics Australia Pty Ltd (STA) has received Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approval to market the drug DIFICID (fidaxomicin) in Australia.