The HSE is expected to make a new cancer drug available free to patients with melanoma.? Pembrolizumab should be included in the State drugs scheme for the treatment of melanoma, the HSE drugs group has recommended.? The decision comes three months after the drug was approved on cost effectiveness grounds by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics.? Oncologists had warned patients would die as a result of the delay in making the decision.
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