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Speaker 1: Now it could be a life changing day for thousands

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Speaker 1: across the country today because a range of sort after

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Speaker 1: medicines are going to be available from FARMAC, including of

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Speaker 1: course Key Truder and joining us now as the Cancer

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Speaker 1: Society CEO Nicola.

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Speaker 2: Kume Nikolain, Good morning morning Heather.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you've been counting down to today.

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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely today is significant for us on many families

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Speaker 2: across our country and well overdo.

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Speaker 1: Are there people who have literally been waiting to get

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Speaker 1: the drug key true to the one that everybody wants

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Speaker 1: to get their hands on. Are there people who've literally

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Speaker 1: been waiting and will today be able to get it

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Speaker 1: and weren't able to yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely they've done I only been waiting, but some of

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Speaker 2: them have also been self funding, mortgaging their homes, traveling

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Speaker 2: outside of our country. So today is life changing and

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Speaker 2: more importantly life extending for these families. This will give

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Speaker 2: these families more time.

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Speaker 1: Of all the things that this government has done, I

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Speaker 1: would put boosting farmac's budget right up there as one

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Speaker 1: of the most important.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, couldn't agree with you more? Couldn't

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Speaker 2: agree with you more? And look fun that has come

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Speaker 2: under a lot of criticism over the last few years,

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Speaker 2: and I've been one of those people. But it is

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Speaker 2: very difficult to invest in cancer drookes when you don't

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Speaker 2: have when you don't have the funding. So this is

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Speaker 2: a significant investment of what I understand, it's it's the

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Speaker 2: largest of its kind ever in New Zealand. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: absolutely life changing.

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Speaker 1: Really very very happy for you guys. I thank you

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Speaker 1: very much, Nicholas. That's Nicola Kuba of the Cancer Society.

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