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Health Minister says continued investment needed as cancer cases set to skyrocket

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 11 Dec 2025, 5:55pm
Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced work is once again under way on the new Dunedin Hospital’s inpatient building. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced work is once again under way on the new Dunedin Hospital’s inpatient building. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Health Minister says continued investment needed as cancer cases set to skyrocket

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 11 Dec 2025, 5:55pm

The Health Minister says predictions cancer diagnoses will increase isn't cause for panic. 

A new report has found the number's likely to double in the next two decades. 

Simeon Brown says much of that will be down to the ageing population and general population growth.

He says that should still prompt Government action. 

"We have to continue to invest, to ensure that we have more access to cancer treatments, cancer medicines, diagnoses - all of the things that this report has highlighted."

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