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New Zealand cancer patients should have access to erythropoietin treatment.

N Z Med J

May 2006

Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.

Erythropoietin was the first haematopoietic growth factor to be cloned and put to clinical use in patients with anaemia. In New Zealand, the agent is approved and funded for patients with anaemia secondary to renal failure. Although there is Medsafe approval for its use in various other conditions, including cancer patients, it is not funded by Pharmac for these conditions.

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