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Cancer drug manslaughter
(BBC 25/09/2009)
A jury has returned an inquest verdict of "manslaughter by gross neglect" on a woman killed by a chemotherapy dose four times too high. Anna McKenna, 56, from Knowle West in Bristol, was being treated for multiple myeloma - a cancer of the marrow in the bone of the spine - in 2006. Dr Jacqueline James, from Frenchay Hospital, prescribed quadruple the correct drug doses over four sessions. Mrs McKenna was unable to fight infection, the inquest heard.
Pauline Pain celebrates becoming first person to beat cancer with magic bullet radiotherapy trail
(Mirror 17/08/2009)
A british cancer patient who was the first in the world to have a revolutionary "magic bullet" treatment is celebrating defeating the disease. Pauline Pain, 58, beat blood cancer multiple myeloma with the targeted radiotherapy that destroys cancer cells in bone marrow without damaging healthy tissue. Traditional radiotherapy would cause severe or fatal damage leading to a long hospital stay - but the new treatment is easy to give and has virtually no toxic side-effects.
Hard decisions
(BBC 16/06/2009)
I first met Eric Rutherford as he lay on a couch in his conservatory. Tubes of blood snaked from his arm into the dialysis machine. His wife, Anne, read its screen and pressed the buttons. Minutes earlier she had placed the needles in his arm, wired up the machine and set it running. Three mornings a week, the 61-year-old former miner endured this treatment. For five years he has been living with a rare cancer of the blood plasma called Myeloma.
Deal reached on NHS myeloma drug
(BBC 30/01/2009)
Drug advisers have changed guidance rejecting NHS use of a bone marrow cancer drug in England and Wales. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence had rejected lenalidomide for multiple myeloma because it was not cost effective. But revised draft guidance has agreed access to the treatment under a cost-sharing deal where the drug company picks up the cost after two years.
Cancer and arthritis patients 'could gain from new drug deal'
(Telegraph 11/01/2009)
People suffering from blood cancer, Chrohn's disease and arthritis could benefit from the new deal (first announced 11/08) between the NHS and drugs companies. The health service will save £350million in drugs costs this year and £550million every year from 2010. Revlimid, a drug for multiple myeloma, the incurable blood cancer, is reportedly included in the scheme.
'NHS told me to dump '£16,000 of cancer pills'
(Daily Mail 15/09/2008)
A woman who wants to donate almost £16,000 worth of life-extending drugs to cancer sufferers has been told to throw them away by the NHS. The 42-year-old's father Paul was prescribed the medication as a last resort in his fight against multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer of the blood.
Cancer patient wins drug battle
(BBC 10/09/2008)
A cancer patient wins a battle in the High Court to be given a drug which doctors say could give him three more years of life.
Judgement day for cancer patient denied costly drug
(The Independent 10/09/2008)
A cancer patient with only months to live [multiple myeloma] will learn today whether he can have the costly drug that specialists say could extend his life by up to three years.
Doctors keep quiet about about cancer drugs to avoid upsetting patients if NICE refuses funding
(Daily Mail 26/08/2008)
Doctors are keeping cancer patients in the dark about new drugs that could extend their lives.
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