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THREE women who met as cancer patients are planning a joint legal action to win access to Velcade, a drug that may help treat the disease.
The 'Velcade Three' - Jacky Pickles, Janice Wrigglesworth and Marie Morton, from Keighley in West Yorkshire -are among hundreds who will be denied access to the drug if the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) sticks to its ruling, which restricts the use of the drug to clinical trials only for patients who have not relapsed.See the full content of this document
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'Cinderella' Cancer Women Plan Legal Battle for New Drug
Velcade is the first new treatment for multiple myeloma - cancer of plasma cells in ...
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