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More flexibility on cancer drugs urged

May 15, 2007 – 10:17 am

Cancer patients must be allowed to pay for non-NHS drugs in an attempt to head off a funding crisis in treatment of the disease, specialists said yesterday.
Under the current guidelines cancer sufferers in England who wish to use drugs that are not available free on the NHS can only pay for them if they are […]

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Pharmac defends cancer drugs access

May 11, 2007 – 7:06 am

Government drug buying agency Pharmac has defended the range of cancer drugs offered to patients, despite an international study showing New Zealand’s access to new drugs is “low and slow”.
The Swedish study, published today in the cancer journal Annals of Oncology, said patients’ access to new and better cancer drugs in New Zealand was on […]

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Romanian cancer sufferers are left without treatment

May 7, 2007 – 8:13 am

Bucharest will witness a protest demonstration of a grisly kind today. In place of the usual flag-waving radicals demanding political change, the streets of the Romanian capital will be filled with cancer patients pleading with a government that they say has turned its back on them.
The country, which joined the EU on 1 January, is […]

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Gene Therapies Show Promise in Cancer

April 19, 2007 – 11:24 am

Experimental Drug That Targets Tumors at Their Roots Also Shows Signs of Success
By Charlene Laino
April 18, 2007 (Los Angeles) — Researchers are reporting early success using gene-based therapies to combat cancers ranging from those of lung and skin to those of the breast and prostate.
Meanwhile, other scientists say that an experimental drug designed to put […]

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