The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), says it cannot recommend the drug, Kadcyla, which promises extra months of life for women with advanced breast cancer, because of Roche's inflexibility.
Think of cancer and the eye-watering cost of the new drugs which target specific genetic types of the disease and buy a few extra months of life for six-figure sums.
A report by 37 experts from countries including Britain, the US and Germany said that with costs ballooning, a radical shift in thinking is needed to ensure fairer access to medicines and address questions such as balancing extra months of life for patients against costs of a new drug, technology or care plan.
With costs ballooning, a radical shift in thinking is needed to ensure fairer access to medicines and address tricky questions like balancing extra months of life for patients against costs of a new drug, technology or care plan, they said.
But the judges turned down the request from the defense for six extra months of preparation time.
While the cancer was incurable, we hoped we could slow its progression and give him a few extra months of life — small solace for a man in his mid-50s with a loving wife and several children ready to start new families, but the best we could offer.
But all they have for their extra months of patience is the recent discovery of a secret enrichment plant, built into a hillside on a military compound near the city of Qom, and the regime's continued stonewalling of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear guardian.
They are not older citizens, so they do not qualify for the extra month of old-age allowance payments that Mr. Tsang also announced, nor are they destitute enough to qualify for the extra month of welfare payment that was announced.
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