Roche CEO slams `stupid' U.K. decision to drop some cancer drugs

8 September 2015 - Roche Holding AG Chief Executive Officer Severin Schwan blasted a U.K. decision to stop funding some cancer ...

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Celgene threatens to scale back UK clinical trial investment after CDF snub

4 September 2015 - One of the world’s leading pharma companies in oncology is considering whether to continue investing in clinical ...

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Thousands of cancer patients to be denied treatment

4 September 2015 - More than 5,000 cancer patients will be denied life-extending drugs under plans which charities say are a ...

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Cancer drugs fund cuts 23 treatments

4 September 2015 - The Cancer Drugs Fund in England will no longer pay for 16 medicines, used in 23 separate ...

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Cancer Drugs Fund delisting of Kadcyla - September 2015

4 September 2015 - Roche has taken to YouTube to explain the imminent delisting of Kadcyla from the Cancer Drugs Fund. ...

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Life-extending cancer drugs to be axed by NHS

4 September 2015 - New and costly cancer drugs developed to extend the lives of patients are expected to be axed ...

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Doctors hail drug that can 'turn off cancer': Once-a-day tablet could spare blood cancer patients effects of traditional chemotherapy

A revolutionary drug that ‘switches off’ cancer may soon be offered to patients with some forms of the disease. ...

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Open letter: cancer drugs – sanity required

An open letter from ABPI Chief Executive, Stephen Whitehead, to the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt MP, following ...

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Bayer wins Cancer Drugs Fund appeal

Bayer is the only company to win its appeal to NHS England in the latest round of Cancer Drugs Fund ...

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Cancer charities concerned at drug fund cuts

Cancer charities say they are "deeply concerned" at moves to restrict medicines available through a special fund set up by ...

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What does the future hold for the Cancer Drugs Fund?

When the government created the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) in 2010 to pay for cancer drugs rejected by the National Institute for ...

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Cancer Drugs Fund makes no sense, says head of drugs rationing body NICE

The government’s Cancer Drugs Fund ‘makes no sense’ the head of the NHS drugs rationing body has said. ...

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NHS England consults on plans for Cancer Drugs Fund

NHS England is considering a trio of changes to the Cancer Drugs Fund, including, for the first time, taking a ...

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Thousands more patients to benefit from additional £160 million for cancer drugs

Thousands more cancer patients in England will be offered vital treatments in a £160m boost to the Cancer Drugs Fund, ...

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NHS chief: 'Further cancer cuts likely'

The head of a special NHS fund for cancer medicines in England has said there will need to be further ...

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