"Please Help Prostate Cancer Patients"

It could be your husband, your father, your brother, your partner who becomes a victim, so PLEASE sign our petition and help us persuade Federal Health Minister, Peter Dutton, to have both items listed on the Medicare Benefits Schedule.

Fact: Private medical cover is getting more and more expensive.
 
Fact: Prostate cancer is NO LONGER an older man's disease.
 
Fact: The cost of living is putting too much pressure on too many households. 
 
Disaster (1) Vital, transperienael probe treatment is critical to prostate cancer patients, who will undergo radiation
                      treatment to the prostate. Transperineal probe treatment costs up to $5,000. There is NO Medicare rebate
                      available for ANY of that $5,000. Too many public prostate cancer patients, are having to forego vital
                       transperineal probe treatment, because they just cannot afford it.
 
This must be addressed and transperineal probe treatment MUST be placed on the Medical Benefits Schedule, so public patients can afford to undergo this vital procedure - and - get a Medicare rebate.   
 
Disaster (2) Vital MRI local staging of the prostate, is also vital to prostate cancer patients. MRI local staging of the
                      prostate can cost from $450 to $1,200. There is NO Medicare rebate available for ANY of that $450 to
                      $1,200. The same issue applies here, as with the transperineal probe, where too many public prostate
                      cancer patients, are being forced to forego this vital form of medical imaging, because they just simply
                      cannot afford it. 
 
 This too must be addressed and MRI local staging of the prostate MUST be placed on the Medical Benefits Schedule, so public patients can afford to undergo this vital for of imaging - and - get a Medicare rebate.