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Scots denied new breast cancer drug used south of the border
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Scottish women with breast cancer have been denied routine access to an innovative treatment that is available to patients in the rest of the UK.Campaigners said that the move was the "ultimate postcode lottery" after the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) recommended that the drug Perjeta should not be accepted for routine use by the NHS in Scotland.It has also rejected Kadcyla, another life-prolonging breast cancer drug.The SMC said that Perjeta could help reduce the need for breast cancer patients to undergo a mastectomy but it had concerns about its long-term benefits.
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After The Sunday Times restaurant critic AA Gill was denied £100,000 cancer treatment on NHS, we meet other sufferers refused immunotherapy
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Gill's treatment was almost four times the cost of chemotherapy, a sum the NHS was unprepared to payIMAGINE a world where it is possible to beat all cancers.Scientists hope this could be a reality one day as they work hard to find a cure for the Big C.Times Newspapers Ltd 7 AA Gill was denied immunotherapy and claimed it could have helped him live longerThere is hope that immunotherapy – a type of treatment that activates the immune system to fight rogue cells – could beat cancers deemed "incurable".Only recently, there have been reports of people going into remission after having the treatment for various types of cancer, including lung, cervical and skin.Yet not all patients in the UK have access to the drugs.
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AA Gill was denied £100,000 'weapon of choice' cancer therapy
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AA Gill died of cancer on Saturday.He was 62 Richard Young/REX/ShutterstockThe acclaimed Sunday Times journalist AA Gill was denied a cutting-edge cancer treatment that might have helped him to live considerably longer.The columnist and critic died on Saturday morning, three weeks after revealing that he was suffering from "the full English" of cancers.A former smoker, Gill had had lung cancer diagnosed and was told that it had spread to his neck and pancreas.
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Scottish breast cancer patients denied drug approved for English NHS
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Breast cancer sufferers in Scotland have been denied routine access on the NHS to an "innovative" new drug despite it being approved last month for use in the English health service.Campaigners said the Scottish Medicines Consortium's (SMC) decision not to accept Perjeta - also known as pertusumab - had created the "ultimate postcode lottery".The agency, which decides which new drugs should be provided on the NHS, said it had rejected the treatment over concerns about its long-term survival benefits and not because of cost.But drugs company Roche said the ruling was a "devastating blow" to Scottish breast cancer sufferers and pointed out National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), the English equivalent of the SMC, approved the drug last month.
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