Not 'Cost Effective'? Britain Denies Cancer Patients Life-Saving Drugs

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Now patients are denied 'breakthrough' prostate cancer drug as health watchdogs brand it too expensive

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By Jenny Hope, Dailymail.co.uk

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A тАШbreakthroughтАЩ drug that gives extra months of life to men with advanced prostate cancer has been rejected for use on the NHS.

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The once-daily pill was developed by UK scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and trials were partly funded by British charities.

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But it has been branded as too expensive by the rationing watchdog the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

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