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Immunotherapy works. Why isn’t it routinely available on the NHS? – Spectator.co.uk

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2017-07-17 NEWS

Immunotherapy works. Why isn’t it routinely available on the NHS?
Spectator.co.uk
When Evelyn O’Flynn was diagnosed with stage four non-small cell lung cancer, after seeing the doctor about neck pain, she was told she had between six and nine months to live. Instead of the standard chemotherapy treatment, she was offered the chance …

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2017-07-17 NEWS

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Mother Jones
… treatment that uses patients’ revved-up immune cells to fight the disease, concluding that the therapy’s benefits for desperately ill children far outweigh its potentially dangerous side effects….Novartis, the drugmaker behind the CAR T-cell