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`‘Last hope‘ drug for prostate cancer patients is axed from the NHS,
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`in a move doctors call a ‘travesty‘
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`Jetvana gives men with prostate cancer at least three months of life
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`But some men given the drug have survived three or more years
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`Cancer Drugs Fund plans to axe drug from its approved list from March
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`They say it is not cost-effective and doesn't offer ‘sufficient clinical benefit‘
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`Charities say the appraisal system for drugs is broken, failing patients
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`40,000 men in Britain diagnosed each year, over 10,000 die from disease
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`Published: 08:04 EST, 9 January 2015 | Updated: 16:45 EST, 9 January 2015
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`The decision to stop NHS use of Jevtana — it has already been rejected by the rationing body NICE — follows
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`news that six breast cancer drugs prescribed for thousands of women are also set to be axed.Some men
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`whose prostate cancer has spread will have no other treatment option.Dr Alison Birtle, consultant clinical
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`oncologist at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said the decision was a travesty.She
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`AVENTIS EXHIBIT 2064
`Mylan v. Aventis, IPR2016-00712
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