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Cuts to cancer treatments announced

12 January 2015 Last updated at 20:23
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News

Twenty-five different cancer treatments will no longer be funded by the NHS in England, health chiefs have announced.

NHS England announced the step after it emerged the £280m Cancer Drugs Fund - for drugs not routinely available - was to go £100m over budget in 2014/15.

Some drugs will be removed and others restricted - a move charities say could leave some without crucial treatments.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30787132

I think it is disgusting it makes my blood boil

Quality of life means nothing to them, it would be different if they had cancer themselves