Monday, October 3, 2011

Dying cancer patients should not be given 'futile' drugs

Dying cancer patients should not be given 'futile' drugs - Telegraph: After a year-long investigation, a panel of leading academics said that the cost of treating cancer to western societies is spiralling out of control, as the ageing population means that increasing numbers of people are growing tumours.

Hi-tech treatments are being developed at a rapid pace while new medicines are coming on the market with little evidence to show they will help patients, it was claimed.

Doctors are said to be recommending new treatments with no thought to their cost or effectiveness because they don’t want to disappoint patients, leaving them with “false hope” as some drugs will only lengthen sufferers’ lives by a few weeks.

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