Doctors are deciding against telling cancer patients about expensive new treatments to avoid causing distress when they find out that the NHS is unwilling to pay for them. A quarter of specialists questioned in a survey admitted to hiding the facts about new drugs for bone marrow cancer that may be difficult to obtain on the NHS.
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Doctors keep quiet about about cancer drugs to avoid upsetting patients if NICE refuses funding - Daily Mail 26th August 2008
Cancer patients kept in dark about ‘too expensive’ drugs - The Times 26th August 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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