Cancer Treatment

EDM number 1558 in 2008-09, proposed by Ronnie Campbell on 01/06/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases, Health services and Medicine.

That this House is concerned that the postcode lottery on cancer treatments is raising its ugly head again; notes that patients who are suffering from cancer and in need of the drug cetuximab, which has been proven to reduce tumours, are being refused because of that lottery; further notes that a constituent of the hon. Member for Blyth Valley, Mrs Mary Brewis, who is 53 years of age, has been informed by the local primary care trust that she cannot have the drug funded, effectively meaning she now awaits an early death sentence; and calls on the Government to fund all cancer treatments, no matter what the cost, to give cancer patients hope.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.