Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jul 2016
'Cancer drug that the NHS refuses to pay for brought me back from the dead'
9 July 2016 - Simon Lamont-Brown returned home within weeks of taking nivolumab after being given days to live in a hospice and saying his final goodbyes.
A man aged 50 with lung cancer came “back from the dead” thanks to a drug the NHS won’t pay for.
Seafarer Simon Lamont-Brown was given days to live and said his final goodbyes to his family in a hospice.
But doctors were amazed when he bounced back after taking nivolumab. Within weeks he was home.
He was able to get the new drug only because he had private health care, as the NHS says it is too expensive.
Simon reckons it is “vastly unfair” and wants all patients to be given it.
