Posted on 03/14/2010 8:24:19 PM PDT by cycle of discernment
Betrayal of 20,000 cancer patients: Rationing body rejects ten drugs (allowed in Europe) that could have extended lives
By DANIEL MARTIN Daily Mail UK 15th March 2010
Up to 20,000 people have died needlessly early after being denied cancer drugs on the NHS, it was revealed yesterday.
The rationing body NICE has failed to keep a promise to make more life-extending drugs available.
Treatments used widely in the U.S. and Europe have been rejected on grounds of cost-effectiveness, yet patients and their loved ones have seen the NHS waste astronomical sums.
Last week it emerged that £21billion - a fifth of the entire annual budget - was spent on failed schemes to tackle inequality.
NICE, the National Institute of health and Clinical Excellence, promised a year ago to make it easier for drugs for rarer cancers to be approved.
But since then four drugs which could have benefited 16,000 people have been turned down outright and a further six which could have helped 4,000 more have been provisionally rejected.
Just five drugs have been accepted - benefiting 8,500 people - says a damning report by the Rarer Cancers Forum. Drugs for rarer forms of cancer are often much more expensive than those for common tumours because pharmaceutical companies cannot make economies of scale.
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“Up to 20,000 people have died needlessly early after being denied cancer drugs on the NHS, it was revealed yesterday.
The rationing body NICE has failed to keep a promise to make more life-extending drugs available. ‘
Preview of obamacare...
My wife was saved from a not rare breast cancer by Herceptin. It is my understanding women in Britain have been denied Herceptin. The drug turned one of the worst outcomes into one of the best.
>> Title: Rationing body rejects ten drugs that could have extended lives
Title says it all.
My mom is undergoing treatment at MD Anderson in Houston; almost all of her treatments are either denied outright by NICE/NHS (assuming they’re even available elsewhere) or would be denied on cost-effectiveness grounds.
MD Anderson, the foremost cancer center in the world according to many experts, would probably close under Obamacare as they could not operate under those guidelines.
HealthControl.
Population control in disguise, is what it is.
This is exactly what we can expaect in America if HC passes.
Under obamadoesntcare, the disguise would come off. Compliments, Bilderberg.
I’ll take Texas Secession for $200, Alex.
Love the ironic acronym: NICE.
and yet they are giving individual welfare mothers million dollar homes to live in, plus plus welfare bennies.
The British people are being betrayed by their liberal masters and we are on the same road
Louise Slaughter’s constituent would get her own dentures!
But she might just pass away from a treatable breast cancer because the obama govt doesn’t think she is worth the cost of the drugs
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