Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Sep 2018
Deal for NHS to offer exciting new child cancer therapy
5 September 2018 - A deal has been struck to let the NHS offer children an expensive new cancer therapy that has been called the most exciting treatment advance for decades.
CAR-T is a cutting-edge treatment for aggressive leukaemia when other drugs have failed but usually costs hundreds of thousands of pounds per patient.
NHS England boss Simon Stevens says a fair and affordable price has been reached with manufacturer Novartis.
