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05/08/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Cancer Drugs Fund found to be “huge waste of money” and a total fraud

England’s Cancer Drugs Fund was launched in 2010 and was up and running through 2016. The fund’s aim was to help patients gain access to cancer medications that were not covered by the National Health Service (NHS). After spending over a billion British pounds, it seems that the fund was not very helpful to cancer […]

04/24/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Cancer surgeons resort to “medical terrorism” by scaring women into unnecessary breast removal surgery

Is that double mastectomy your doctor recommended really necessary? New research from Stanford University School of Medicine has indicated that there is a good chance it may not be — and that your doctor may know it’s not necessary. In a study of 2,000 women, researchers found that about half of them underwent unnecessary surgery […]

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