Victory after skin cancer drugs previously denied to NHS patients given green light

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Two skin cancer drugs previously denied to NHS patients are now saving lives after finally getting the green light from the Government?s drugs rationing body.
Yervoy and Zelboraf have been approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence ? which initially said they were too expensive ? and are now being offered to patients whose tumours have spread to other parts of the body. This once meant almost certain death.
The drugs are being hailed as one of the biggest breakthroughs in treating advanced malignant melanoma in three decades.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ents-given-green-light.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
 
That's great!

There's defo a link between malig mel and breast cancer and vice versa, so anything that might prevent the spread is very very welcome.
 
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