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news from the Sentinel and other sources on "Women Fighting for Herceptin"
Lots
of articles from the Sentinel shown below from 13th-30th June
Sentinel journalist Kathie is in a class of her own
30 Jun : Sentinel education reporter Kathie McInnes has been named
runner-up in her specialism at a national awards ceremony. She was judged
to be the second best regional Education Journalist of the Year at an
event organised by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
French connection for cancer battle
27 Jun : Campaigners fighting for money to help cancer sufferers have been
given a helping hand - by pupils at a school in France. Pupils at the
British School of Paris took part in a week of fund-raising activities
including lemon eating and chocolate selling to earn money for the Dot
Griffiths Breast Cancer Appeal Fund.
Wendy fights two battles
26 Jun : "THEY wanted me to terminate my pregnancy so I could start
chemotherapy, but I just couldn't do it," says Wendy Beech. Wendy found
out she had breast cancer in March, virtually the same time she discovered
she was pregnant for a fifth time.
Great result for the girls
20 Jun : Organisers of a charity gala have raised more than £18,000 for
cancer sufferers in North Staffordshire. February's For The Girls event
featured personal messages from stars including comic and writer Ben
Elton, TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson and Potteries-born entertainer Jonathan
Wilkes.
Herceptin women give £58,000 to hospital
19 Jun : Almost £60,000 raised by people in Staffordshire and Cheshire in
just nine months to help pay for life-saving cancer treatment is being
donated to a hospital. Members of the public donated the cash at dozens of
events organised to help fund treatment for women being denied the cancer
drug Herceptin on the NHS.
Gala Success
19 Jun : One of the most successful fund-raisers was the For The Girls
gala concert in February. It featured messages from stars including comic
and writer Ben Elton, TV presenter Ulrika Johnson, actor Chris Barrie,
singer Kym Marsh and Potteries entertainer Jonathan Wilkes.
Dot deserves recognition
13 Jun : Sir, - Regarding the article in The Sentinel about the health
watchdog set to approve the Herceptin drug. They have finally come to
their senses to allow these women to......
 Articles
from 16-26th June
Rhodri 'No' to some treatments
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Decision defended Jun 28 2006 Rhodri Morgan has defended the decision not to immediately hand out breast cancer drug Herceptin in ... |
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The human face of cancer Jun 26 2006 Gill Donovan, director of patient services for Cancer Care Cymru, believes we must not be so blinded ... |
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Tragic Helen is inspiration for fundraiser Jun 24 2006 A special party will mark what would have been the 30th birthday of a young mum who left a 'mummy manual' ... |
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Can
we afford £5m cost of cancer drug? Jun 16 2006 Serious questions have been raised about whether the NHS in Wales can afford the £5m cost of Herceptin ... |
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Herceptin funding fears branded a 'disgrace' by
Conservative AM Jun 16 2006 Fears over whether the NHS will be able to give Herceptin treatment to breast cancer patients have been ... |
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Cancer drug funding 'national disgrace' Jun 16 2006 SERIOUS questions have been raised about whether the NHS in Wales can afford the £5m cost of Herceptin ... |
Research
that can save lives
19 Jun : The broad welcome given to the decision this week by NICE to
recommend Herceptin is a measure of how much we value medical advance.
Thanks to this so-called wonder drug, thousands of women with breast
cancer have a much-improved prognosis and can look forward to the future.
The same can be said for many of the other drugs which we now take for
granted, from Ventolin for asthma to statins for cholesterol.
News Items from 9th June: BBC; Sun; Mirror; Guardian; Times; Mail; Sentinel; IC Wales; IC Huddersfield; IC Newcastle;
Dot's
elated at breast cancer drug breakthrough
25 May: Campaigners are celebrating as the breast cancer drug Herceptin
was today granted a UK licence for use in the early stages of the disease.
Dot Griffiths, leader of the Women Fighting For Herceptin campaign, of
Hartshill, said she was "elated" with the announcement made by the drug's
manufacturer Roche.
The
Sun gets Herceptin
25 May: The Sun won a
campaign that could save 1,000 lives a year yesterday after Herceptin got
a licence to be used on ALL British women with HER2 breast cancer.
We
can beat breast cancer
25 May: The Sun's campaign to make Herceptin
available to all on the NHS scored a major victory yesterday when it was
licensed for use in early stage cancer.
Licence
should lift curbs on Herceptin, say cancer charities
'Wonder
drug' Herceptin given licence
Herceptin:
So is it such a wonder drug?
24/05/2006: Ann Marie Rogers recently won a landmark victory
to make the breast cancer drug Herceptin more widely
available. Here, she explains what drove her. But others are
asking if the treatment really lives up to its drug company
hype .....
Cancer
drug Herceptin gets approval
Thousands
to get breast cancer drug on the NHS
25/05/2006: Thousands of women with breast cancer will be
able to get the 'wonder-drug' Herceptin on the NHS after it
was granted a UK licence. European authorities yesterday
approved use of the drug for women with early stage breast
cancer throughout the EU. .....
Cancer
drug 'approved in weeks' |
Drug
licence is welcomed May 25 2006 CARDIFF-based cancer charity Tenovus has welcomed the granting of a UK licence for the drug Herceptin ... |
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Cancer
drug 'approved in weeks' May 24 2006 The breast cancer drug Herceptin could be approved for widespread use on the NHS in the next few weeks ... |
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Cancer
drug Herceptin gets approval May 24 2006 The breast cancer drug Herceptin has been granted a UK licence for use in the early stages of the disease, ... |
Jane's
£27,000 cancer drug bill
18 May : A Cancer patient has been forced to spend £27,000 of her own
money to pay for the potentially life-saving drug Herceptin - after NHS
bosses ruled she was not an exceptional case. Jane Hewitt, 58, from
Bristol, had been told by her oncologist that she was an "ideal candidate"
for the treatment, which can cut the chances of the disease returning by
50 per cent.
Herceptin
Mum 11th Hour Plea
May 17: A breast cancer sufferer who has just six days left to get
the life-saving drug Herceptin yesterday began a desperate sit down
protest.
Herceptin
campaigner on Merthyr mission
May 13: Cancer campaigner Jayne Sullivan has a new mission on her hands -
to get fair treatment for patients ...
Stuart's
breast drug joy
May 9: A man who had a cancerous breast removed was told
yesterday the NHS will fund his treatment with Herceptin.
Delight
at man's Herceptin win
9 May : The Somerset nurse who won her battle to force health chiefs to
give her the cancer-fighting drug Herceptin spoke of her delight after a
male breast cancer sufferer won a similar fight. Barbara Clark, of
Bridgwater, became the first person in the UK to be given the drug on the
NHS for early stage cancer after a lengthy battle.
Male
cancer victim in Herceptin win
8 May: A male breast cancer sufferer has been told that his local NHS
trust will fund his treatment with Herceptin
Father-of-two
granted breast cancer 'wonder drug'
8 May:A father-of-two has been granted the breast cancer 'wonder drug'
Herceptin on the NHS. The 37-year-old believes the drug could double his
chance of overcoming the disease.
Male
cancer victim in Herceptin win
May 8 2006 A male breast cancer sufferer has been told that his local NHS
trust will fund his treatment with Herceptin.
Male
cancer victim in Herceptin win
May 8 2006 A male breast cancer sufferer has been told that his local NHS
trust will fund his treatment with Herceptin.
Male
cancer victim in Herceptin win
May 8 2006 A male breast cancer sufferer has been told that his local NHS
trust will fund his treatment with Herceptin.
Breast
cancer wonder drug 'to be approved'
Apr 29: Thousands of breast cancer sufferers have been given fresh
hope after it emerged the 'wonder drug' Herceptin is expected to be
approved for widespread use within weeks.....
Herceptin one step closer to licence
Apr 28: The breast cancer drug Herceptin is one step closer to being
licensed in the UK for early-stage patients after winning European
approval.The drug has caused controversy in the courts because some
Primary Care Trusts have refused to fund the treatment until it is
licensed .....
Euro regulators back Herceptin use
Apr 28: European regulators have backed the use of the breast cancer
drug Herceptin for the early stages of the disease.....
EU
ruling clears Herceptin for possible NHS use
Apr 28: Wider availability of the breast cancer drug Herceptin on
the NHS moved a step closer today after European regulators approved it
for use in the early stages of the disease. The drug, which has been the
subject of a legal battle in England, won the recommendation from the
European Medicines Agency in just two months.
Euro
regulators back Herceptin use
Apr 28: European regulators have backed the use of the breast cancer drug
Herceptin
for the early stages of ...
Apr 28: I see that in an attempt to save the ailing NHS the
Government has decided to cut nursing posts.
Euro
regulators back Herceptin use
Apr 28 2006 European regulators have backed the use of the breast cancer
drug Herceptin for the early stages of ...
Staying
positive is way forward
25 Apr : Discovering a loved one has a life-threatening illness is about
as traumatic as it can get. Yet Joan and Terry Simpson, of Bailey Court in
Alsager, know the importance of staying positive. Since Joan, aged 61,
developed breast cancer in 2002, Terry, aged 65, has supported her
throughout her illness. By LAURA NAYLOR Joan's story
Rationing
is only rational
April 25: Newspaper headlines tell a compelling story of crisis in
the health service: despite record levels of funding, the NHS is
crumbling, broken by inefficient bureaucracies, interfering managers,
political incompetence and endemic waste, the result of which is staff
cuts, hospital closures, poor services and rationing - all of which harm
patient care.
The
NHS cash crisis
April 24:It's crunch time for the NHS: despite record investment in recent
years, debts of between £600m and 700m are predicted for the past
financial year, and there is little sign of the financial crisis abating.
Hospitals
may have to close to pay for new drugs, says Hewitt
23 April: Patricia Hewitt has told her cabinet colleagues that
hospitals will have to close if Britain is to afford "hundreds" of
expensive new drugs such as Herceptin.
Chinese
wardrobes
April 22: Kasia Boddy's Response (I'm not 'emotional' - I really do need
Herceptin, April 19) opens debate on the future funding of cancer
treatment. We are living longer and there will be more new and expensive
drug treatments.
Fight
for cancer drug to be told on screen
Apr 20: A film is to be made about the struggle of Barbara Clark to
receive the cancer drug Herceptin. Ms Clark, 50, a former nurse from
Bridgwater in Somerset, won her fight to obtain the drug on the NHS after
threatening to go to the European court of human rights.
Patients
to be denied Herceptin
Apr 19: Two Shropshire primary care trusts says they will continue
to refuse to fund treatment for an anti-cancer drug.
I'm
not 'emotional' - I really do need Herceptin April
19: Kasia Boddy For the second time this year, the Guardian leader column
has attacked the "interference" of judges and government ministers in the
provision of drugs that have not yet been approved by the National
Institute for Clinical Excellence.
Eighteen
get gift of life
17 Apr : Eighteen breast cancer patients across North Staffordshire are
now being treated with the revolutionary drug Herceptin through the NHS.
The region's four primary care trusts have funded the drug for the 18
women who have been backed by the Women Fighting For Herceptin campaign
group.
My
mum thinks that Joan Collins should play me!
19 Apr : She took on the Government and made international headlines with
her quest to win a life-saving breast cancer drug. And now West breast
cancer drug hero Barbara Clark's amazing story may soon be dramatised in a
TV film, it emerged yesterday.
Hope
for women in drug fight
Apr 16 2006 Breast cancer doctor Mary McElroy, who pioneered the use of
Herceptin for women in the region, hopes ...
'I
feel I've taken on the world and beaten it'
Apr 13: CANCER victim Ann Marie Rogers, who won a landmark legal victory
yesterday over the funding of the drug ...
Woman
wins Herceptin fight
Apr 12: A breast cancer patient wins her legal battle to be given
the potentially life-saving drug Herceptin.
Rogers
v Swindon NHS Primary Care Trust: judgment in full
Q&A:
Herceptin ruling a victory for patient power
April 12: Sam Lister, Health Correspondent of The Times, explains
why today's appeal court ruling is good news for breast cancer sufferers
Woman
wins Herceptin treatment court appeal
Apr 12: Cancer victim Ann
Marie Rogers today won her appeal against a refusal by a local NHS trust
to fund her treatment with the drug Herceptin.
Sun Online
Cancer woman's victory
Apr 12: A relived cancer victim today burst into tears after a court
ruled her local NHS trust should fund her treatment with wonder-drug
Herceptin.
Cancer
victim wins Herceptin battle
Apr 12: Cancer victim Ann Marie Rogers today won her appeal to allow her
to receive the drug Herceptin.
Cancer
woman hails appeal victory
Apr 12: Cancer victim Ann Marie Rogers, who won a landmark legal victory
over the funding of the drug Herceptin, said the "humanitarian" ruling had
given her back her future.
Herceptin
woman: I've just got my future back
Apr 12: Breast cancer sufferer Ann Marie Rogers declared she has 'started
living again' today after winning her court battle to be treated with the
drug Herceptin. The health trust said it is now reviewing its
policy.....read
Cancer
woman hails appeal victory
Apr 12: Cancer victim Ann Marie Rogers, who won a landmark legal
victory over the funding of the drug Herceptin, said the "humanitarian"
ruling had given her back her future......read
Woman
wins Herceptin appeal
12 Apr: Breast cancer patient Ann Marie Rogers praises court of
appeal's 'humanitarian judgment' after primary care trust ordered to
review policy.
Q&A: Herceptin
Cancer
woman hails appeal victory
Apr 12: Cancer victim Ann Marie Rogers, who won a landmark legal
victory over the funding of the drug Herceptin, ...
Cancer
victim wins Herceptin appeal
Apr 12: Cancer victim Ann Marie Rogers has won her appeal against a
refusal by a local NHS trust to fund her ...
Cancer
woman hails appeal victory
Apr 12: Cancer victim Ann Marie Rogers, who won a landmark legal victory
over the funding of the drug Herceptin, ...
Cancer
victim wins Herceptin appeal
Apr 12: Cancer victim Ann Marie Rogers has won her appeal against a
refusal by a local NHS trust to fund her ...
Appeal
ruling due in Herceptin case
Apr 12: Cancer victim Ann Marie Rogers will learn the outcome of her
appeal against a refusal by a local NHS ...
Herceptin free for Welsh patients only
Apr 10: Breast cancer sufferers from Wales are getting a potentially
life-saving drug for free at a hospital ...
Battle
was worth it for this moment
8 Apr : Cancer-sufferer Sylvia Evans has won her appeal to get the
life-saving drug Herceptin on the NHS. South Stoke Primary Care Trust had
told hospital volunteer Mrs Evans that she could not be treated with
Herceptin because her chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment had finished
at least six months before her application.
Drug
win throws lifeline to women
8 Apr : Thanks to the efforts of the Women Fighting For Herceptin campaign
group, every woman in North Staffordshire who could benefit from treatment
with the drug, can have it. The drug is only effective in treating the one
in five breast cancer patients who are Her2 positive. It means they have
the over-expressive Her2 gene which produces too much of a protein which
attaches to cancer cells and receives signals telling tumours to grow.
Herceptin blocks those signals and also acts as a beacon, encouraging the
body's immune system to seek out and destroy cancer cells.
See Archive News for news from November 2005 to March 2006
"Women
fighting for Herceptin" would like to take this opportunity to thank
the Sentinel Newspaper for their support in our campaign.
We recommend you search the
paper's website yourself using the term
Herceptin or Dot Griffiths to find even more stories.
Donations to the campaign can be made through the Dorothy Griffiths Breast Cancer Appeal Fund, c/o The Sentinel at 23 Ironmarket, Newcastle, ST5 1RH. Make the cheque payable to ‘The Dorothy Griffiths Breast Cancer Appeal Fund’
