Tag Archives: cancer_treatment

New cancer treatment may offer hope

May 15, 2007 – 10:20 am

NORMAN, Okla., May 14: A new cancer treatment developed by two University of Oklahoma professors has offered new hope in its reported ability to stop the spread of cancer cells.
The Oklahoman newspaper reported Monday that professors Thomas Pento and Roger Harrison have discovered a new treatment that does not harm healthy normal cells in the […]

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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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Nod for funding of nine-week Herceptin breast cancer treatment

May 4, 2007 – 4:44 am

The State drug-buying agency Pharmac has confirmed that it will fund Herceptin for treatment of early breast cancer from July.
Herceptin will be funded under a nine-week treatment plan.
About 350 women a year will receive the treatment, which will be given with a form of chemotherapy.

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Cancer expert demands end to NHS targets

April 8, 2007 – 6:16 pm

WAITING-TIME targets for cancer treatment should be scrapped because they are actually delaying treatment for some patients, one of the country’s leading experts warned last night.
Professor Jim Cassidy, Cancer Research UK’s chair of medical oncology in Scotland, also said that treating patients within deadlines can often make little difference to their chances of survival. He […]

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