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Some British parents are taking their children to the US to receive a three-drug treatment for neuroblastoma, a cancer that affects around 100 children a year in the UK.
The NHS is reportedly refusing to fund a treatment for one of the most common cancers suffered by children.
European regulators are still evaluating the efficacy of a three-drug treatment that has been shown to reduce deaths from neuroblastoma by a quarter.
At least 45 families with children suffering from the disease are appealing to the public for funding for the drugs, which are available in the US.
But Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Government?s cancer tsar, told a newspaper: ?I have to go with the advice from experts that I am given unless I think they have got it wrong.?
Some British patients can receive the key drug in the combination ? a monoclonal antibody ? through a European trial.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9...-cancer-treatment-that-cuts-deaths-by-25.html
The NHS is reportedly refusing to fund a treatment for one of the most common cancers suffered by children.
European regulators are still evaluating the efficacy of a three-drug treatment that has been shown to reduce deaths from neuroblastoma by a quarter.
At least 45 families with children suffering from the disease are appealing to the public for funding for the drugs, which are available in the US.
But Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Government?s cancer tsar, told a newspaper: ?I have to go with the advice from experts that I am given unless I think they have got it wrong.?
Some British patients can receive the key drug in the combination ? a monoclonal antibody ? through a European trial.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9...-cancer-treatment-that-cuts-deaths-by-25.html