It is very saddening to hear that the NHS have decided not to make abiraterone available to men with prostate cancer. Not only do we poor chaps not get screened but when the worst happens drugs which might help are not available.
what is all the more disturbing is this drug was developed by cruk scientists. It raises the question about the point of giving money for research for the fruits of that research only to be sold off to the highest bidder drugs company for it only to be sold back to the NHS at such a high price that they will not pay for it! How many more drugs do cruk have in the pipeline which will be following the same fate? We run, have tea parties, jump from aeroplanes to raise money in the expectation that the fruits will go to cure our loved ones not to line the pockets of a large drug company.
Are we just wasting our time and money CRUk? Are we better off just leaving the research to big pharmaceutical companies and cutting out the middleman?