Expert calls for Italian-style approach to cancer drugs.(Features)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  December 10, 2007 ;     557 words ......in Cardiff that to fund all new cancer drugs would cost Velindre NHS Trust...up to 32 drugs a year and the New Cancer Drugs Advisory Group is working hard...can also have safe access to new cancer drugs as part of clinical trials...

FDA streamlines approval process for new cancer drugs

The Boston Globe;  June 5, 1991 ;     332 words ......now have authority to approve new cancer drugs without getting approval from...regulatory actions related to cancer drugs without getting approval from...well." One hundred twenty-six cancer drugs are undergoing human clinical...

Cancer drugs uptake slated.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  October 11, 2005 ;     106 words ......bottom of a European league table for the adoption of new cancer drugs is shameful$, UUP Health spokesman Robert Coulter...lags behind others in the EU in terms of access to new cancer drugs. This situation must be addressed by the decision...

COST OF NEW CANCER DRUGS A CONCERN

United Press International;  September 7, 2004 ;     218 words ......International 09-07-2004 Cost of new cancer drugs a concern PORTLAND, Ore...International via COMTEX) -- New cancer drugs are so expensive some doctors...more successful than earlier cancer drugs, the cost of these new pharmaceuticals could put...them most. ...

Extra $13.3M coming for cancer drugs

Winnipeg Free Press;  May 20, 2006 ;     676 words ......the cash will go toward cancer drugs, but he didn't identify...turned her down for a costly new cancer drug called Erbitux praised...including a patient's cancer history and the available...problem of how best to fund new and expensive cancer drugs, the demand for which ...

Biotech giant in talks on new cancer drugs

The Independent - London;  September 27, 2002 ;     84 words ......started exploratory talks with three companies developing cancer drugs with a view to buying their products or their whole business...acquisition trail as part of a new strategy to focus on developing new cancer drugs. He unveiled a restructuring that split the business into...

Call for cancer drugs charity.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  May 25, 2006 ;     180 words ......to be set up to help people refused cancer drugs on the NHS. The Gateshead East and...MP has called for greater access to new cancer drugs and has asked the Government to fund...inspired to campaign for fairer access to cancer drugs after two of her constituents were...

Costly cancer drugs 'will crush the NHS'.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 9, 2008 ;     585 words ......Jenny Hope THE high cost of cancer drugs could lead the Health Service...for the future, look at new ways of bringing money into...four life-extending kidney cancer drugs. There are growing calls...Sikora, who is professor of cancer medicine at Imperial College...being made to try to ...

Milburn to call cancer drugs summit

The Northern Echo;  November 29, 1999 ;     410 words ......to choose which new cancer drugs can be given fast-tra...is to meet the new "cancer tsar", Professor...decide which new cancer drugs should go to the...use a promising new drug, Temodal...in Newcastle by Cancer Research Campaign...

Fed: Australian scientists find path to new cancer drugs

AAP General News (Australia);  February 8, 2003 ;     164 words ......Australian scientists find path to new cancer drugs Australian scientists have reportedly...lead to a new generation of cancer drugs. The Sunday Herald Sun says...paper says the new class of anti-cancer drugs is to be developed in Melbourne...

End wait on cancer drugs, say doctors.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  September 15, 2005 ;     192 words ......Australia chairman Ian Olver says adding cancer drugs to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme...that it currently takes too long for new cancer treatments to be subsidised via the...the existing regulations governing cancer drugs should be changed to shift the focus...that it takes too ...

Our uptake of cancer drugs 'too slow and too low'

Evening Standard - London;  October 1, 2007 ;     185 words ...BREAKTHROUGH cancer drugs would be introduced in Britain first under Tory plans to save...claimed today. Britain has one of the worst records for access to new cancer drugs, according to a study in Sweden. It examined 67 cancer treatments...

UK lags behind Europe over access to new cancer drugs.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 6, 2005 ;     483 words ......most of Europe in giving cancer patients access to new drugs, a report claims...discourages the use of new cancer-drugs which can be taken at...quickly patients are given new drugs in the EU countries...terms of the ability of cancer patients to access new cancer ...

Qld: Cancer drugs need double the funding, says Cancer Council

AAP General News (Australia);  October 12, 2001 ;     193 words ......General News (Australia) 10-12-2001 Qld: Cancer drugs need double the funding, says Cancer...government should double its funding for new cancer drugs which could extend the lives of patients...would have to double its spending on cancer drugs if it's to offer a world-class ...

Study shows patient deaths have declined in early studies of new cancer...

Daily Breeze;  November 4, 2004 ;     537 words ...CHICAGO -- Experiments in which new cancer drugs are tested on patients are not as risky as they were a decade...drugs were increasingly ineffective. Some of the newest cancer drugs employ a more targeted approach than older medicines, attacking...