A fund set up to improve access to life-extending drugs for cancer patients is under threat, a cancer charity warned yesterday.
The ?200 million-a-year Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) was established by the Government to ensure that patients would not be denied the most effective treatments, even if they had been rejected by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the medicines regulator.
About 44,000 patients are estimated to have benefited from the fund since it was established in 2010. Most of these patients were affected by so-called rarer cancers, those outside the most publicised cancers such as colon,
Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article3639028.ece
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