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The Northern Echo highlights the plight of cancer patients across the North-East and North Yorkshire who have the tantalising prospect of a revolutionary new drug dangled before them - only to have their hopes dashed when they are told it is not cost-effective enough to be prescribed on the NHS.

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Patients’ fury at ‘offensive’ drug remarks

8:56am Monday 15th June 2009

CANCER patients have hit back at comments made by a senior health official who compared getting life-saving drugs to buying an expensive car.

Cancer patient foots bill for drugs

DESPERATE FIGHT: John and Mary Brewis, who are angry the NHS is refusing to pay for drugs keeping her alive, leaving the couple to pick up the £1,100-a-week bill

8:13am Tuesday 2nd June 2009

THE husband of a cancer patient who is paying £1,100 a week to keep his wife alive has criticised the NHS for failing to fund the drug which is shrinking her tumours and prolonging her life.

Criticism over NHS cancer drug rule

7:54am Monday 18th May 2009

KIDNEY cancer patients are being offered new hope thanks to a drug recently made available on the NHS, but liver cancer patients could be denied the same right.

49 patients given new cancer drug

8:21am Monday 23rd February 2009

A DECISION to allow North-East cancer specialists to prescribe a new drug has so far helped 49 patients, it was revealed last night.

Progress – at a push

11:40am Monday 9th February 2009

RIGHTING wrongs has been part of the The Northern Echo’s ethos since it was founded. And, in that respect, last week was quite satisfying.

Patients win cancer drug plea

9:37am Monday 9th February 2009

A CANCER charity has reassured patients that most people who need an expensive new drug on the NHS will get it after all.

Improved access to cancer treatment

APPROVAL: Cancer patient Kathleen Devonport

7:52am Saturday 3rd January 2009

THOUSANDS of terminally ill cancer patients could be given extra months to live after a health watchdog last night announced new rules to improve access to drugs.

Cancer victim who battled for access to new drug dies

CANCER CAMPAIGN: Barbara Selby

8:16am Tuesday 23rd September 2008

CANCER campaigner Barbara Selby has died without ever getting the advanced drug she believed could prolong her life.

Patients demand kidney drugs

TURNED DOWN: Cancer patient Barbara Selby

7:43am Thursday 28th August 2008

DOZENS of kidney cancer sufferers and their families protested yesterday over the refusal to allow patients treatments on the NHS.

1,300 not given vital treatment

8:36am Monday 11th August 2008

A SURVEY has revealed more than 1,300 cancer patients nationwide are being denied vital drugs because of a “postcode lottery” over who gets access to them.

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