Hello Brony,
Tykerb is currently being issued by the drug company free to certain cancer centres for women who meet the criteria. It is part of the Drug familiarisation program until a ruling is passed by the govt as to whether to make it available on Medicare. If it is not passed then it will have to be paid for.
The criteria are; you must have had,
- an anthracyclane (Epirubicen etc)
- a year of Herceptin that is no longer working
- metastatic breast cancer
- chemotherapy -Taxane
It is being issued with Xeloda (chemotherapy tablet) as that is the basis of the research .
Speak to your oncologist about it.
Good luck
Adrien