What value can you put on extending someones life by 5 - TopicsExpress



          

What value can you put on extending someones life by 5 months? A breast cancer treatment that can cost more than £90,000 a patient is not effective enough to justify the price the NHS is being asked to pay. Thats the draft guidance that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has put forward about drug called Kadcyla The drug is for women with a particular type of breast cancer, which has also spread and is incurable - it does not therefore save life, but extends it by a few months.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 05:40:10 +0000

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