Monthly Archives: May 2015
Doctors to test statins on private cancer patients
The Sunday Times 17 May 2015 A GROUP of doctors are to offer a cocktail of common drugs including statins to 5,000 terminally ill cancer private patients to create a large-scale trial that they hope will convince the NHS to adopt the treatment. Their patients, who will each be charged a fee of £400 and […]
The women saying no to breast cancer screening: As evidence rises that many are harmed by unnecessary treatment, why more women are refusing checks
More women than ever are surviving breast cancer, and that’s often credited to the national breast screening programme. The programme, which offers checks every three years to all women aged from 50 to 70, is thought to prevent 1,300 deaths a year from the disease. Yet women are questioning whether genuine cases are being uncovered at too […]