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Posted on Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 11:44am
Recognition for inventors in the fight against disease [Date: ] The fight against leukaemia and malaria - two of the world's most virulent diseases - was rewarded in two out of the four categories at the recent European...
Posted on Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 1:30pm
NICE opens NHS door to blood cancer therapy Revlimid 27 April 2009 It was further good news for patients with multiple myeloma in the UK last week after the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence cemented...
Posted on Monday, April 27, 2009 - 12:55pm
A trial of omacetaxine for chronic myeloid leukaemia in people who cannot take tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) or whose leukaemia has not responded to TKIs This trial is looking at a drug called omacetaxine (OM) for...
Posted on Monday, April 6, 2009 - 10:12am
Guidance on NHS patients who wish to pay for additional private care: Executive summary The key points which NHS organisations should take from this guidance are: • NHS organisations should not withdraw...
Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 11:28am
Dear RCF supporter, We are hoping that volunteers with rarer cancers will be able to help us collect information about the process of diagnosis at GP level for people with rarer cancers. The aim of the project is to...
Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 10:49am
UK cancer specialists “not telling patients about new drugs” 26 August 2008 A quarter of doctors specialising in the cancer myeloma have admitted not telling their patients about expensive new drugs which have yet to be...
Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 7:39pm
'Europe’s rare cancer community calls for a more radical approach' Anna Wagstaff The genomic era offers enormous potential for patients with rare cancers, but progress is being held back by structures...
Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 2:14pm
Department of Health publishes guidance on exceptional cases processes Wednesday, January 21, 2009 The Department of Health has published Defining Guiding Principles for Processes supporting Local...
Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 2:08pm
Rarer Cancer Forum have produced a booklet to advice consultants on appealing negative funding decisions from PCT's...
Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 1:58pm
Rarer Cancers Forum carried out an audit of the policies and processes used by PCTs to determine exceptional funding requests. The findings of the audit were made public in an RCF report entitled Taking Exception (...
Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 1:53pm
Rarer Cancers Forum carried out an audit of the policies and processes used by PCTs to determine exceptional funding requests. The findings of the audit were made public in an RCF report entitled Taking Exception (...
Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 1:45pm
Department of Health publishes guidance on exceptional cases processes Wednesday, January 21, 2009 The Department of Health has published Defining Guiding Principles for Processes supporting Local...