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The Rarer Cancers Foundation has a place for you!

Why not enter the 10K London Run on 12th July 2015 and support the Rarer Cancers Foundation, the national voice of people with rare and less common cancers. The Rarer Cancers Foundation currently has 11 runners, with up to 7 … Continue reading

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News from the Rarer Cancers Foundation

The Rarer Cancer Foundation (which campaigns on behalf of people with less common and rarer cancers) has major concerns that value-based pricing has stalled and that NICE’s Value-Based Assessment process will completely fail to address the Health Technology Assessment problems … Continue reading

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Concerns about NICE-approved medicines for rare and less common cancers

Two days ago the Health and Social Care Information Centre published its statistics on the use of NICE-approved medicines yesterday. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10588291/Lottery-of-NHS-drugs-punishes-the-dying.htmlhttps://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/425875607252381696/photo/1) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2543648/The-NHS-trusts-wont-patients-new-life-saving-drugs-Huge-disparity-numbers-given-new-treatments.html The Telegraph also carried a comment article from the Rarer Cancer Foundation: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10588475/Regulator-needs-to-act-to-stop-endemic-postcode-lottery.html Andrew Wilson, Chief … Continue reading

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The Rarer Cancers Forum has a lion’s roar!

I’m lucky enough to be a trustee of a very special charity: the Rarer Cancers Forum/The Rarer Cancers Foundation (RCF). The RCF was launched in 2001 as the Rarer Cancers Forum, but changed its name to the Rarer Cancers Foundation … Continue reading

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