Miracle drug help for cancer patients
Appeal for help to end crime spree
POLICE are appealing for information to help find a thief they say has been on a threemonth crime spree across Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
Police say 31-year-old Mitchell Connor has committed at least 70 offences since April, stealing cars, motorbikes, phones, house keys, credit cards and number plates from secure garages and carparks.
Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Jack Savage said Connor had targeted suburbs including Norman Park, New Farm, Coorparoo, Albion, Eight Mile Plains and Southport.
He said Connor had used the stolen cars to evade police on a number of occasions.
“He has a number of associates who could possibly be using those vehicles as well,” Sen Sgt Savage said. “A number of the property items that have been taken from the vehicles, including credit cards and identity, have been used to commit fraud offences”.
Sen Sgt Savage urged anyone with information about Connor’s whereabouts to call triple-zero and not approach him as he is believed to carry a handgun. THOUSANDS of Australians fighting late-stage renal and lung cancer will soon get easier access to a new miracle drug.
From tomorrow, the federal government will subsidise Opdivo so that patients will pay just $38.80 per treatment, or $6.30 for those with a concession card.
Up to now, patients have had to fork out about $5000 a course – adding up to more than $130,000 per year.
“This drug changes lives and saves lives,” Health Minister Greg Hunt said.
“For patients and their families it provides the precious gift of a full and healthy life.”
It’s one of the biggest listings ever on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, costing the government $1.1 billion.
The drug has been credited with saving the life of AFL star Jarryd Roughead.
It’s a type of immunotherapy that helps make cancer cells more vulnerable to attack by your body’s own immune cells.
Unlike conventional treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation, it activates white blood cells that help fight cancer cells in your body.