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Article: Echo health - 'Cost is not the issue in cancer drug approval'
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- June 8, 2007
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The issue of who gets new cancer drugs is becoming a political hot
potato. Health Editor Barry Nelson met the head of the regional
cancer network which, in the absence of national guidance, has to
rule on whether your local primary care trust will pay for new
drugsTHE director of a body which recommends which new cancer drugs
will be available on the NHS in the region, has defended its
role.Moira Davison, director of the North of England Cancer Drug
Network - which includes a sub-group known as the NorthEast and
Cumbria Cancer Drug Approvals Group - insists that the main criteria
for approving cancer drugs are their effectiveness and their
safety.While acknowledging the approvals group ...