Fran Boyle
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110 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2016
last heard Jun 2018
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Well, interestingly, in the US, the direct costs of chemotherapy are much higher than they are in Australia for a variety of reasons.
And so in the US, it's the health funds
who actually are health insurers who pay for the test to try and stop the people giving chemotherapy and in that circumstance it's very cost effective and so we've seen over the last couple of years since the Oncotype has been around in the US the number of people getting chemotherapy is falling and that's saving a lot of money and in Australia
I think we've always had a more judicious approach to the use of chemotherapy in people with hormonal cancers.
We've never been as gung-ho as the Americans.
But I think you'd have to imagine that it would be cost-effective as well as the human cost of having chemotherapy and its potential side effects.
No, the public system's not paying for it, so probably the only people who are having it done in Australia would be people who, by their reading, have learnt about it and have decided it's worth the investment and who've had that discussed with them by their health professional.
Thanks, Norman.
Hi Norman.
Well, I think during treatment things like hair loss, for instance, have been quite underestimated by health professionals in terms of the impact they might have on a woman psychologically and her coping during treatment and that's something that we finally have some means to address for some women undergoing chemotherapy.
With scalp cooling.
So that's something that's new and which is widely used in the UK and Europe.
So we're trying to make sure that Australian women get better access to that.
That's right, the hair follicles kind of hibernate and that means that they're less affected by the chemo and we know that women um and it's not a vanity thing.
It's it's often about trying to make sure that strangers in the supermarket don't inspect the contents of your trolley and make suggestions about organic food or your children don't get distressed at the school gate when you come to pick them up.
Well in Australia the funding for them um has mainly been provided through donations and so that's a way that units are actually applying them.
But they do mean that patients spend more time in the chemotherapy unit.
So if you've got a very busy chemo unit, there's a lot of logistics that have to be rearranged to make that work.
But we've been working with um different sorts sort of hospitals around the country to see if we can solve problems for them and gradually
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