Costly Cancer Drugs Could Destroy Nhs, Warns Expert ; Politics

Birmingham Post › September 10, 2008

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The high cost of cancer drugs could lead the NHS into "meltdown", a leading expert said yesterday.

Professor Karol Sikora said the next generation of drugs would keep people alive for longer but they were so expensive they could swallow half of the current NHS budget within four years.

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Costly Cancer Drugs Could Destroy Nhs, Warns Expert ; Politics

He calculated they could cost the NHS pounds 50 billion - about half the current budget, which...

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