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New cancer drugs on NHS after price deal
(The Scotsman 10/11/2009)
HUNDREDS of Scottish patients will benefit from expensive new drugs, following a groundbreaking deal between the NHS and pharmaceutical companies. People who have cancer will be among the first beneficiaries of the deal, which aims to limit the controversy over sufferers being denied access to life-saving drugs. It means in some cases companies will pay for therapies in patients who do not respond %u2013 essentially a money-back guarantee %u2013 or pick up the bill for part of the cost of treatment.
(BBC 27/10/2009)
When Jan Alcoe was diagnosed with a difficult-to-treat cancer three years ago, she was shocked by the frightening metaphors that doctors and nurses would use to describe the treatment she was to receive. "The words were overwhelmingly negative," she recalls. "My oncologist said my skin might not cope with the onslaught. The cancer nurse came round to my house to read out the side effects of my treatment - using words like 'toxic' and 'burning'.
New bone marrow treatment 'saves patients too ill for chemotherapy'
(Telegraph 01/09/2009)
Desperately sick children too ill to undergo a bone marrow transplant have been treated using a pioneering new therapy which could potentially help hundreds of patients.
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'Cancer hope' from WWII-era drug
(BBC 31/08/2009)
One of the earliest chemotherapy drugs appears to work against a genetic fault that triggers a form of bowel and other cancers.
Police donate electronic pads to aid cancer patients
(The Scotsman 17/04/2009)
POLICE are set to donate 50 electronic notebooks no longer required by the force to cancer charities to help them monitor chemotherapy treatment. The electronic notebooks - or PDAs (personal data assistants) - are used by hundreds of officers to issue on-the-spot antisocial behaviour fines and record information. But around 200 have become redundant due to software changes and are being replaced.
(The Scotsman 28/02/2009)
CANCER patients in the remoter isles of the Outer Hebrides are to receive chemotherapy closer to home, saving a journey of more than 120 miles.
Cancer sperm men win court battle
(BBC 04/02/2009)
Six male cancer patients have been told they can claim damages after a hospital freezer broke down and destroyed their frozen sperm. Five said they had suffered psychiatric problems as a result of the incident at Southmead Hospital in Bristol. The Court of Appeal ruled the samples, given after the patients were warned chemotherapy could make them infertile, belonged to the men.
Cancer patients' sperm cash claim
(BBC 25/11/2008)
Cancer patients whose sperm samples were destroyed when a hospital freezer broke down are claiming personal injury damages from North Bristol NHS Trust. Six men, one of whom has since died, had asked for samples to be put on ice, fearing that cancer treatment could make them infertile. In June 2003 a freezer tank at Southmead Hospital failed.
Revealed: Star Wars-style 'light sabre' to destroy cancer cells
(Daily Mail 21/11/2008)
A revolutionary laser which could fight cancer has been developed by British scientists. The device could be routinely used on patients in NHS hospitals within the next five years, according to the researchers. The machine - a couple of mm square - fires a laser beam so accurately that it can puncture a hole in an individual cell, allowing drugs to enter and do their work much more effectively.
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