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Open Letter to World Leaders
This is an open letter from the Dying for a Cure campaign to World Leaders about cancer. If we truly want to beat cancer sooner, we need to cooperate across the world to use our money, knowledge and...
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Cancer Drug Costs Could Be Halved
An increasing number of cancer drugs are being priced out of reach of patients who need them due to escalating prices charged by pharmaceutical companies. The Cancer Drugs Fund was a stop-gap solution...
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Cancer Drug Benefits Overhyped
Barely a month goes by without a newspaper headline claiming that “A cure for all cancers is on the way” or hailing the latest “Major cancer breakthrough”, but dig beneath the media hype and you’ll...
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NHS Can’t Afford Half New Cancer Drugs
A cancer diagnosis is one of those moments in life when everything changes in an instant. Your whole world collapses around you. You are no longer the master of your own destiny. Instead your future...
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95% of Promising Cancer Research Fails
95% of promising discoveries from cancer research labs fail when drug companies test them in real patients A new study has revealed that 95% of promising discoveries from cancer research labs fail when...
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Are We Being Misled On Cancer Progress?
survival rates don’t prove that cancer patients are living longer; mainly that they are living with cancer for longerEvidence has come to light that the public may be being misled about our progress in...
View ArticleTime To Rethink How We Pay for Medical Research
Our medical R&D system is undermining our health – reform could boost our economy and our wellbeing. The medicines that work their way through the university labs, clinical trial sites and...
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Is Cancer Research Money Well Spent?
When we give money to cancer research charities like Cancer Research UK we expect that money to be used efficiently to help discover and develop new treatments that will actually benefit patients, many...
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Cancer Drugs Sold for 25 Times R&D Costs
A new study published in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal has found that the latest new cancer drugs are being sold for many times the R&D costs spent developing them; resulting in mega profits...
View ArticleNHS Pays £0.5bn for Public Funded Drugs
On World Cancer Day, the Missing Medicines coalition has released figures showing that pharmaceutical companies are charging the NHS half a billion pounds a year for cancer treatments discovered with...
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