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

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  December 10, 2007 ;     557 words ......to improve patients' access to...and expensive cancer drugs. The Italian...cost to other patients' treatments. Currently, new cancer drugs are only available...supposed to do. Patients have quicker access to cancer drugs within the...

Hub doc's cancer drugs weak in early tests.(News)

The Boston Herald;  May 14, 2001 ;     308 words ...Studies on three cancer drugs developed in the lab...Hospital were released at a cancer conference yesterday...activity in two of 25 patients, but the cancers ultimately grew in all of the patients, said Dr. Roy Herbst...one of a new class of cancer drugs known as ...

?Controversial cancer drugs policy is wrong?

The Northern Echo;  September 2, 2008 ;     343 words ......NHS services to patients who pay for cancer drugs privately needs...better-off cancer patients should not be...be changed so patients who pay for cancer drugs privately are...Rules mean that patients who opt to pay...trusts on which cancer drugs it ...

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

Daily Breeze;  November 4, 2004 ;     363 words ...CHICAGO -- Experiments in which new cancer drugs are tested on patients are not as risky as they were a decade ago, according to a study that found a sharp drop in deaths from 1991 to 2002. At the same...was also a decline in the percentage of tumors that shrank in response to the drugs being tested. But ...

UK lags behind Europe over access to new cancer drugs.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 6, 2005 ;     483 words ......the NHS for any patients who would benefit...the use of new cancer-drugs which can be taken...ability of cancer patients to access new cancer drugs. Austria, Spain...for providing patients with the newest cancer drugs. The Czech Republic...

Costly cancer drugs 'will crush the NHS'.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 9, 2008 ;     585 words ......THE high cost of cancer drugs could lead the...drugs would keep patients alive longer, but...life-extending kidney cancer drugs. There are growing...restriction on patients who pay privately...there are ten new cancer drugs routinely available...free choice for ...

Pharmacist charged with diluting cancer drugs; Weakened treatments:...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  August 16, 2001 ;     382 words ......investigators studied his records page by page to find patients who might have been given weakened treatments for...concerns, specifically the issue of the number of patients that might be involved. "Any patients the government would be concerned about is a much...investigators said Tuesday there could ...

Patients set to sue NHS after paying for own cancer drugs

Evening Standard - London;  October 27, 2008 ;     386 words ......planning to sue the NHS for compensation. Hundreds of patients had to pay for treatment after NHS chiefs ruled...least three London trusts have been targeted by patients making compensation claims, an investigation by...denying "top-up" treatments. Current rules mean patients cannot mix NHS care with ...

Cancer drugs can top $100,000 a year: They don't cure disease but can...

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ......generation of high-tech cancer drugs is extending patients' lives, but the...Consequently, patients typically experience...critics concede that cancer drugs are expensive to...high cost of new cancer drugs, most patients are able to get...

Medicare patients may get stuck with bill in fight over cancer drugs.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL);  January 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ......LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Cancer patients on Medicare are caught in...more for chemotherapy and cancer drugs, patient advocates said. As...drugs they inject into cancer patients, and so far a few doctors...lower payments for intravenous cancer drugs after studies showed the ...

CANCER DRUGS SPEEDED UP CLINTON CHANGING RULES BY WHICH APPROVAL IS GIVEN...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  March 30, 1996 ;     700+ words ......s rules to speed cancer drugs to patients, it announced yesterday...Until now, makers of cancer drugs had to show that...survival of cancer patients or improve the quality...are now about 300 cancer drugs in development or...

Study: Patient deaths decline in early studies of new cancer drugs

AP Worldstream;  November 3, 2004 ;     558 words ......Early studies of experimental cancer drugs appear to be getting safer...ineffective. Some of the newest cancer drugs employ a more targeted approach...news." "It indicates that patients who agree to go on to these...The studies involved 6,474 patients, and the overall death ...

Study Indicates Cancer Drugs Getting Safer

AP Online;  November 3, 2004 ;     576 words ......a total of 6,474 patients and the overall...of experimental cancer drugs appear to be getting...It indicates that patients who agree to go...also a decline in cancer-related deaths...really matters to patients I think when they...

No WAG cash for cancer drugs.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  January 11, 2006 ;     370 words ......for new generation anti-cancer drugs. First Minister Rhodri...last week revealed that patients are told they cannot...the most advanced anti-cancer drugs, because the NHS in Wales...request they had made for patients to be funded for drugs...Commission Wales. Thousands of ...

Clinton administration plans to speed access of cancer drugs to...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 29, 1996 ;     488 words ......Friday to speed cancer drugs to patients, as part of its...way.'' Some 300 cancer drugs are currently...year, and 1,500 patients die every day...they can make cancer tumors shrink...argument that dying patients are willing to...