Victoria Macdonald
While survival rates for some types of cancer, including breast and colon, have improved dramatically over the past 40 years, the UK record for ovarian cancer remains relatively poor.
Victoria Macdonald
India manufactures one-fifth of the world’s generic drugs with about half sent abroad, largely to poorer countries. But a court case could threaten this supply of affordable medication to the developing world to treat conditions such as HIV and Aids.
Labour’s 2010 manifesto has been given the FactCheck treatment. For more read on.
Is Labour right to saythe Conservatives would “scrap your right to see a cancer specialist within two weeks and your right to be treated within 18 weeks”? FactCheck checks it out.
The Conservative Party claims it can pay for all cancer drugs on the NHS from the money it “saves” by not implementing the National Insurance rise.