Disease index

chronic iron overload

Haematology · 2006–2020

6decisions
1medicine
2carried consumer input
9individual submissions

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
deferasirox Chronic iron overload due to disorders of haemopoiesis, including transfusion-dependent malignant and non-malignant disorders of erythropoiesis, and… Nov 2020 Recommended none received
deferasirox Treatment of chronic iron overload due to disorders of haemopoiesis, including transfusion-dependent anaemias, non-transfusion-dependent thalassaemia, and… Jul 2018 Recommended 6 individuals
deferasirox Treatment of chronic iron overload associated with transfusion-dependent malignant disorders of erythropoiesis and non-transfusion-dependent thalassaemia. Jul 2015 Not recommended 3 individuals Thalassaemia Society of NSW · Leukaemia Foundation
deferasirox Chronic iron overload in patients with non-malignant disorders of erythropoiesis who are transfusion-dependent. Nov 2014 Recommended with restriction no section in document
deferasirox Chronic iron overload associated with the treatment of disorders of erythropoiesis in adults, adolescents and children 6 years and older, and in paediatric… Jul 2006 Recommended with restriction no section in document
deferasirox Chronic iron overload associated with the treatment of disorders of erythropoiesis in adults, adolescents and children 6 years and older, and in paediatric… Jul 2006 Recommended with restriction no section in document

Who spoke

Thalassaemia Society of NSW · Leukaemia Foundation

What the PBS pays

$4M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 6,806 services.

This is spend on the medicines considered for this condition, not spend on the disease. A medicine used for several conditions is counted in full under each, so figures across conditions add to more than national PBS expenditure.

MedicineGovernment benefit
deferasirox $4M

Registered, not subsidised

Medicines on the ARTG for this condition with no PBAC record at all. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions: a medicine can be legally available in Australia and never have been put to the committee.

MedicineOn the ARTG sinceRegistrations
desferrioxamineDBL DESFERRIOXAMINE MESYLATE FOR INJECTION 500mg powder for injection 1996 4

The ARTG export holds current registrations only, so the year is the earliest entry still on the register rather than a first-registration date. The condition here comes from the registered label, which is usually broader than the population a sponsor asks to have subsidised.

Conditions are classified by a language model from the indication text of each submission, so an individual label here can be wrong. Consumer input is read from the document's own consumer comments section: 2 of 4 decisions since 2014 carried some. Silence means no comment reached the committee through that facility, not that nobody was affected. More on how this was built.