Australian children battling cancer will find it easier to access life-saving proton beam therapy overseas following immediate changes to the government’s grants process.

For years, families have faced a difficult and often distressing journey to secure funding for treatment abroad.

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Despite taxpayers already investing more than $100 million to build and operate a proton beam therapy facility in Adelaide , the technology is still not available in Australia.

The government has offered grants for families to travel overseas, with 78 of 89 Medical Overseas Treatment Program applications approved since 2021.

As part of this process, families have been required to provide deta

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