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The Cancer Society is questioning whether the health system will be able to cope with the extra work of administering thirteen new cancer treatments National is promising to fund of elected in October.
The party says about a thousand cancer patients a year will benefit from the treatments that are extending survival rates across the Tasman.
It's promising to re-allocate $280 million to buy the drugs by reeling back the Labour government's free prescriptions policy.
Cancer Society medical director Dr Kate Gregory spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.