In Germany most health insurance companies will pay for a PSMA PET/CT and a Lu177 treatment. It is not approved but offered by most nuclear medicine clinics, so the insurance companies have no good reason to object to cover the costs I guess.
The clinics produce the drug themselves or purchase it from a clinic which has the facility to do that. So they do not need big pharma for that. I assume the situation is similar in Australia.
Where are you located? My husband is on the wait list for the trial at Weill Cornell in NYC - (a place to open up Sept/Oct) and according to the paperwork we completed our insurance will cover it. . . .
There is evidence for progression free and overall survival. But but not large randomised cohort studies. So public health systems internationally won't pay for it because it is not proved beyond reasonable doubt; too late for some of us. Privately you need to front up with $. Painful. R
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