Too many seriously ill children and their families are still unable to access decent end of life care, with a “cruel postcode lottery” meaning many cannot decide where they die,
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Some breast cancer patients could be offered hormone therapy for a decade under new NHS guidelines. And all women who have a mastectomy due to breast cancer should be offered
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Drugs used to treat two rare cancers have been turned down for routine use by the NHS in Scotland. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) advised against the medicines as it
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Health officials have taken a “backwards step” in breast cancer care after recommending that a genetic test should no longer be used on the NHS, a charity has said. The
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Cancer cells can be targeted and destroyed more effectively using a substance found in stinging nettles and ants, research has found. The new treatment, named JPC11, can be recycled and
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The NHS continues to miss key cancer waiting times, as new figures showed a third of patients in one health board area had to wait more than two months for
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A new treatment which can halt the spread of breast cancer for up to two years for terminally ill patients has been approved for use by the NHS in Scotland.
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There are to be 300 more radiographers employed by the NHS in England, ministers have announced as experts have warned of a “crisis” in the diagnostic workforce. Health Secretary Jeremy
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Terminally ill people should stop being forced to “self-certify” they have only months to live in order to claim Universal Credit, an SNP MP will tell the Commons. Drew Hendry
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A radical new immune therapy developed from cases of “miraculous” cancer recovery could be tested on patients as early as next year. Scientists have found a way to screen potent
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