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NHS 'Faces Meltdown' Over Cancer

Sep 9, 2008
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Thomas Moore, Health correspondent One of the country's top doctors has warned the NHS faces meltdown because of the cost of treating cancer. Treatment costs are spiralling Professor Karol Sikora, of CancerPartners UK, told Sky News the next generation of drugs will turn cancer into a chronic disease that patients live with, not die of. But the drugs are not just expensive - they will give way to a raft of new... [read full story]                    

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