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Use of Paclitaxel in ovarian cancer is justified
The congratulations offered by Dr Harding to those health authorities yet to make Paclitaxel available to their patients with ovarian cancer are misplaced. The evidence was summarised in Effective Health Care and is set out more fully in the research evidence volume of the Guidance on Commissioning Cancer Services - ...
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news in brief
Doctor Patient Partnership says people need further education about how to access health services when they are away from home, following a survey of 50 patients who attended Royal Cornwall and Derriford hospitals over the eclipse period. It found that 64 per cent thought they had to visit accident and ...
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Blair must have courage to wait for long-term pay-off
comment Best way to tackle rising demands on NHS is to see 10-year plan through
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A PCT by any other name?
opinion: WALKING TALL: 'The personal medical services idea began to feel like an idiosyncratic worm inside the corporate apple, run by mavericks - usually GPs - who wanted nothing to do with the emerging models of communitarianism'
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Prescribing Postcodes are alive and well - unlike patients
Dr Maggie Harding (letters, 12 August) does a disservice to women with ovarian cancer. She draws attention to the June Effective Health Care Bulletin on the management of gynaecological cancers, which recommends that Paclitaxel and Carboplatin should be the treatment of choice for this disease. Yet she congratulates health authorities ...