Free cancer drug applications begin

Tuesday, 20 January 2009

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Cancer patients in England can now apply for free prescriptions.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced last year that patients with long-term conditions will get their medicines free of charge on the NHS.

Charges for cancer patients will be scrapped from April 1 but patients can now apply, with other conditions to follow later.

However, campaigners have been calling for everyone in England to be exempt from the cost after charges were scrapped in Wales and are in the process of being phased out in Scotland.

The announcement means the abolition of charges for everyone undergoing treatment for cancer, the effects of cancer or the effects of cancer treatment. All medicines will be covered by the exemption, including drugs not relating to the actual disease.

Patients will apply for a five-year exemption certificate which can be renewed as many times as necessary and will not have to be returned if their condition changes.

Application forms will be available from GP surgeries and oncology clinics but must be countersigned by the patient's GP, hospital doctor or service doctor.

All applications received by March 24 will be processed in time to be used for April 1.

Up to 150,000 patients already diagnosed with cancer are expected to benefit, and may save £100 each per year in prescription charges, according to the Department of Health.

Public health minister Dawn Primarolo said: "This new scheme gives people living with cancer one less worry at such a difficult time. I would urge patients to make an appointment with their GP from this week to talk about applying for their exemption certificate."

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And why not...

tommytcg wrote:

Wednesday, 21 January 2009 at 09:20 am (UTC)

also a free copy of The Cure and Prevention of All Cancers, 2007, H R Clark, PhD, ND, with 668 pages of new science showing the identified causes and pathways of all cancers. This work done using resonance comparison and sensitive Geiger counters, (for radon gas, polonium etc),, by a 40 year cell biologist, first publishing in the mid 90s. Now that would save many lives, whether someone got their free treatment or not. Just snake oil, false, hope, or junk science as your oncolgist will taunt? You decide, its your life.

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tommytcg wrote:

Wednesday, 21 January 2009 at 02:09 pm (UTC)

has Dr H Clark`s work been published in any Scientific nor Medical Journal, you may ask. What would NOT be allowed to be published in a controlled Journal would be a cure that could kill a trillion dollar indiustry. With this in mind, it would be foolhardy for any author with a cancer cure to expect publication. What happens when a work of alternative cures is privately published is that a massive effort is then undertaken to first discredit the author, then to try to discredit the cure, with the usual fraud, snake oil, false hope, and junk science labels. This is done by paid organizations such as quackbusters, and various Socities that that have an interest in keeping people sick and on drugs. There is another twist. Should any work has been submitted to a Journal for publication, it would then be illegal for the author to privately publish that work, while it remained in the Jounal`s hands. for however long. That simply is why it has been privately published. In fact the author was threatened with imprisonment in USA if she dared publish but freedom of speech won out in her case. One needs also to keep in mind the resistance of mainstrream medicine to change. One notes here that the natural cure for scurvy, that was Vitamin C, took four hundred years to be accepted. I have no financial interest in Dr Clarks works, but have been applying it since 1995.

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