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No Funding Restrictions on Cancer Drugs

No Funding Restrictions on Cancer Drugs

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Started by Gemma Bingham 11 years, 6 months ago
The NHS have announced plans from April to stop funding 25 life prolonging cancer drugs for those with advanced cancers. This will affect more than 8,000 people on them now and countless people not yet diagnosed. This could be you or your friends and family needing these drugs. Imagine that situation you are told the devastating news that I you have advanced cancer, there is drug that could help, but the NHS won't supply it.

I was faced with that exact situation, my son Nick was diagnosed with kidney cancer aged 23 and the drug he needed was not available on the NHS. It cost £4,000 a month and we had to raise that or watch him die. What would you do in that situation? How would you find the money to help a loved one live? Let's stop this situation now.


WE WANT NO RESTRICTIONS ON CANCER DRUGS.


Please sign this petition to show you think everyone deserves a chance to live no matter how small!

Updates

January 14, 2015

ive been reading through all the stories people are leaving in the comments and it is honestly heartbreaking to see how many families are going through this. i am currently putting together a package of these messages to send over to the local health board so they have to see the real faces behind these policy decisions.

January 14, 2015

im honestly blown away by how many people are joining in on this. seeing this kind of momentum gives me so much hope that we can actually force them to listen.

Reached 100 supporters

January 14, 2015

71 Comments

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Julie Gray
11 years ago Featured

Who puts a price on a persons life? It should be our human right to receive treatment if it could save a life.

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11 years ago Featured

My partner has got cancer , and we need this help we can not afforded to buy it payed in to n,h all are life, so why should we pay again

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CAROLE HALL
11 years ago Featured

having had life threatening cancer myself,and now well .i think every cancer patiant shoud be given the chance to survive if it is possibble, cancer drugs SHOULD BE FREE AND AVAILABLE to ALL

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Lisa Humphrey
11 years ago Featured

If all men are equal no one person should be denied medication on any basis especially the Trust they come under or the postcode area within which they live!!

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Trudy smith
11 years ago Featured

Without less drugs cancer suffers like myself will not have that chance to spend times with there family and making memory's also how can u really put a price on someone's life wrong in so many ways please sign and help xx

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anita tindle
11 years ago Featured

please font stop funding uve suffered and without it i wouldnt b here tday i lost my auntie last year and a close friend this we need the funding

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jacqui cotton
10 years ago

It is a sad situation that families have to find the money to save a loved one, it is a horrible position to put people in especially if they have no way of paying for treatment. Good Luck x

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Nathan holford
10 years ago

i think it is appalling that there is a price put on someone's life

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