Tuesday, 02, Dec 2008 05:47
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Continued uncertainty on the legality of ‘top-ups’ has caused untold anxiety for breast cancer patients, so today’s announcement that those paying for drugs will not lose access to NHS care will bring relief to many.
Thousands of people with advanced breast cancer are suffering appalling gaps in essential support and care which is routinely offered to patients with primary breast cancer.
The majority of breast cancer patients in England are routinely failing to receive essential psychological and emotional support despite government calls for, and NICE guidance on, the provision of such care, it is revealed today.
Comment on research published in the New England Journal of Science, from Cancer Research UK which claims that a single mammogram reader using Computer Aided Detection (CAD) can be as effective as the two readers traditionally used in the UK.