02/09/2008"What is very hard for many doctors to do is to have to explain to patients that an appropriate drug treatment for them is too expensive to prescribe.
"The health watchdog NICE is regularly refusing new therapies to treat cancer and uses a cut-off of £28,000 a year as a basis of evaluation. It would be better if it evaluated medicines on the basis of how long they prolong a person's life..."
Taken from a Daily Express interview with Oncologist Dr Justin Stebbings, senior lecturer at Imperial College, London.
Lower age for bowel cancer screening - News Article
05/03/2007Nick Phillips, who is in the process of setting up a new charity - Bowel Cancer Wales - wants to raise awareness about the disease, in a bid to reduce the number of people developing it.
Interviewed byMadeleine Brindley, Western Mail |
Bowel Cancer Discovery by Scientists in Wales
15/02/2007When healthy parents both carry a defective gene called MYH, their children are at very high risk of coming down with bowel cancer, researchers at the University of Wales College of Medicine say in an article in this tomorrow’s eminent ‘ The Lancet’ journal for the medical profession.
14/02/2007An important advance in understanding bowel cancer has been made by researchers at the University of Bristol, UK.