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Article: Terminal cancer treatment in focus
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- Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2008
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Holyrood's public petitions committee is to conduct a "short
inquiry" into the treatment of people suffering from terminal
cancer.
It decided to act in response to a petition from Mike Gray, 53,
of Drybridge, Buckie, calling for equal treatment for all those
suffering from the disease.
Last month the committee heard how Mr Gray, who has terminal
liver cancer, had been forced to pay nearly pounds3,400 every
fortnight for a life-saving treatment because the health board
refused to fund the medication.
Just pounds1,360 went on a life-saving drug cetuximab, and the
rest on treatment such as chemotherapy, nursing and delivery costs
associated with the drug's use - which would all be ...