{"id":1427849,"date":"2022-04-10T16:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T20:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1427849"},"modified":"2022-04-10T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T20:15:01","slug":"socialised-medicine-life-prolonging-drug-deemed-too-expensive-for-nhs-breast-cancer-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialised-medicine-life-prolonging-drug-deemed-too-expensive-for-nhs-breast-cancer-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialised Medicine: Life-Prolonging Drug Deemed &#039;Too Expensive&#039; for NHS Breast Cancer Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium 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style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Breast cancer patients in England will not be able to avail themselves of a life-prolonging drug after the country\u2019s socialised healthcare system deemed it \u201ctoo expensive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A drug that would prolong the lives of those with advanced breast cancer will not be made available to many patients in England after the country\u2019s socialised healthcare system ruled it to be \u201ctoo expensive\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>While the medicine known as\u00a0Trodelvy will be made available publicly in Scotland, which manages its own state healthcare system, England\u2019s\u00a0National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has decided it would be best that women south of the border not be able to avail themselves of the drug, claiming that it is not \u201ccost-effective use of [National Health Service] resources\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/04\/07\/breast-cancer-sufferers-denied-life-extending-drug-nhs-expensive\/\">report<\/a> by\u00a0<em>The Telegraph<\/em>, around 650 women in England would have benefitted from taking the drug, with one charity describing the decision as a \u201cdevastating blow\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvidence shows Trodelvy can increase time before a patient\u2019s disease progresses and, crucially, how long they live compared to being treated with chemotherapy,\u201d said\u00a0Delyth Morgan, who serves as Chief Executive of the charity Breast Cancer Now.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The charity head also took aim at the state healthcare system\u2019s poor handling of cancer cases, saying that women deserve to gain access to such a drug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese women, who already face devastatingly poorer prognoses and limited treatment options, deserve the chance to benefit from this new treatment option,\u201d the chief executive argued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Socialised Healthcare: Cancer Waiting Time Targets Missed in 98% of NHS England Areas<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O3CYoPj9km\">https:\/\/t.co\/O3CYoPj9km<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1511675095206531080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While seemingly extremely popular amongst the general public, the United Kingdom\u2019s socialised healthcare system has a relatively poor track record when it comes to treating cancer cases effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Wait times for treatment within the service are far from where the British government believes they should be, with a massive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/04\/06\/cancer-waiting-time-targets-missed-in-98-of-nhs-england\/\">98 per cent<\/a> of NHS areas in England missing their wait-time targets for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/targets-for-waiting-times-on-cancer-treatment-missed-in-98-of-nhs-england-areas-in-january-12582271\">January<\/a> of this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, survival rates for cancer patients within the system are low compared to other first-world counterparts, with less than three in five colon cancer patients surviving for five years or more post-diagnosis in Britain, compared to\u00a0over two-thirds in Canada and 70.8 per cent in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>This example appears to be representative of other variants of the illness, with a study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine into cancer survival rates among 28 different nation-states regularly finding patients in the United Kingdom to have outcomes below the average.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is not just cancer sufferers that the NHS is failing, with a review of maternal healthcare in one section of the socialised system finding that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/29\/300-babies-died-unnecessarily-within-socialised-healthcare-unit-in-uk-report\/\">300 babies<\/a> died unnecessarily thanks to an unhealthy obsession with natural births.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were numerous opportunities for the system to wake up and realise that there was a problem at this trust,\u201d said experienced midwife Donna Ockenden, who headed up the official investigation into the scandal, also commenting that she was \u201cshocked and saddened\u201d by her findings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been a number of occasions where families tried to be heard over many years and were silenced or ignored,\u201d she lamented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen families that have been split apart, families where relationships have been broken, cases of trauma and PTSD that have persisted for years after the event as well as terrible, terrible sadness.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">300 Babies Died Unnecessarily within Socialised Healthcare Unit in UK- Report<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cPCbfR3ucO\">https:\/\/t.co\/cPCbfR3ucO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1508760890358775816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Peter Caddle on Twitter:<\/span><\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peter_caddle\"><span>@Peter_Caddle<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breast cancer patients in England will not be able to avail themselves of a life-prolonging drug after the country\u2019s socialised healthcare system deemed it \u201ctoo expensive\u201d. 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