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From: PJ O'Donovan
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:56:20 -0700
Local: Sun, Aug 12 2007 8:56 am
Subject: Socialized medicine UK: NHS saves big bucks denying patients
cancer treatment according to NHS doctors
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/511286.stm
Health
UK cancer care 'fails patients'
Excerpts:
Money for cancer services needs to increase vastly, say doctors
Cancer care in Britain is to be examined by a committee of MPs in the
light of claims by specialists that services are no better than those
in some developing countries
The conference, "Costs of Cancer Care", heard that Britain spent 95
pence per head on chemotherapy in 1997, compared with =A37.76 in the
US.
Campaigers claim they are being denied access to the best
treatments...
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.=2E..Some doctors admitted that they lied to patients that no
treatments were available rather than say that the NHS could not
afford them
As many as 55 per cent of people diagnosed with cancer in Britain
never get to see a cancer specialist and almost nine out of ten
doctors said they had difficulty prescribing new cancer drugs.
Survival rates in Britain are also lower for many types of cancer. In
Switzerland a patient with colon cancer has a 51 per cent chance of
surviving five years and a 60 per cent chance in the US, but in
Britain the figures falls to 36 per cent
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