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

This week it was announced 25 different cancer treatments would no longer be paid for by the Cancer Drugs Fund.

But Prof Peter Clark, an oncologist who runs the fund, said the rising cost of drugs was a problem.

He added that the system for chemotherapy drugs was "broken".

The Cancer Drugs Fund was established under this government and is spending increasing amounts of money on medicines which would not otherwise be available to NHS patients in England.

More than 60,000 people have used the fund since it was established in 2010. However, it has been repeatedly overspent. 

The number of drugs funded was restricted at the same time as the budget was expanded from £280m to £340m.

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