Thoughts

[Sqad]

http://www.politics.c...cer-drug-$1341470.htm

[zzxxee]

saw this on g.m.t.v this morning it only prolongs life for a further 6 months to an already terminal illness,
i feel money could be spent by resurch into a cure rather than an extra 6 months of life

[logic]

well what can anybody say about that SQAD,
money is being spent in the wrong places in my opinion,
It's interesting to see that Romania has accepted the drug.

Btw, how are you,?

[Sqad]

Logic...lost 2-1 at snooker, so not in best of moods..............I'm a bad looser logic.

[logic]

fair comment zzxxee
but if this was the first day of my last six months I would want it.

[logic]

Must try harder SQAD
either at being a good loser, or being a better player.

[yogi-bear]

Unbelievable sqad.......especially when it's already being agreed for funding in other countries such as Spain, Italy France and Germany.

When are the authorities in power going to see sense that when these drugs are made available...they need to be tested, no matter what the cost, even if they can even prolong a cancer sufferer a week, let alone months and possibly year plus in the future.

[zzxxee]

yes i know what your saying logic if it was an individual situation and happeneing to me personally i would be the same, but you have to take into account all cases and not just one

[yogi-bear]

He's a hustler, logic...........he'll up the stakes money-wise next week and win easily!...lol

Hope you're well, sqad, other than the loss today.:0)

[Sqad]

Yogi..........LOL

Logic ...too old to change, I have always been a bad loser.

[jake-the-peg]

£50,000 is a lot of money to turn someone's last 8-10 months into their last 10-12 months.

If the UK worked through the EU with Romania, France Germany and the other countries to provide a solid front we'd probably manage to get the price down.

But whilst we're a bunch of small fractured states we're easy pickings for big businesses

[logic]

So what do you do then,?
smash your cue across your knee,?
Stamp your feet,?
Swear,?
Or just Sulk.

[Sqad]

logic......that just about sums me up....................about everything..;-)

[Sqad]

Zeuhl....it doesn't work that way.

Complicated, but each NHS trust has it's own budget and this is broken down into departments and the budget is not easily interchangeable. I was contacted at the end of one financial year, say that my department had £10,000 left to spend before the end of the year.

I explained that there was nothing that was needed, but got the reply that if I didn't spend it then the department would be docked £10,000 the next year.

It was spent ????

[daffy654]

My thoughts are similar to zzxxee's,the money could be better spent elsewhere on drugs that give a far longer extension of life than 6 months.

[Gromit]

Liver Cancer costs the NHS £460 million a year and kills over 3,000 people.

That's over £150,000 per patient.

My friend was diagnosed with Liver Cancer last year. Basically, they said he had got it, it was terminal and there was nothing they could do, and he had better go home and die, which he did. I cannot imagine how that cost £150,000.

I see little benefit in the NHS spending on the drug, just to buy a few months of what is a very poor quality of life.

[naomi24]

My first thought when I heard this news was why do drugs cost so much? I know years of research go into finding cures and treatments, but I can't help thinking the pharmaceutical companies must bear some responsibility. Not nearly as serious, I know, but as an example the essential medication prescribed for my dogs costs me almost £40 for a tiny tube of cream no more than an inch and a half long. Surely the cost of drugs can't be justified.

Incidentally, I agree with Zeuhl. The powers that be do not have their priorities in order, and he's right - too much money is frittered away on non-essentials - including salaries for non-essential clerical staff. He speaks of lights for an office, but when my husband caught MRSA on an overnight stay in an NHS hospital, the staff had the gall to complain at the £40 a day the hospital was obliged to spend on hiring a special machine to try to clean the resulting wound - and that was before the four operations he needed as a result which cost the NHS thousands -and left him with a permanent disability - and all due to a lack of properly trained cleaning staff armed with proper equipment to do the job thoroughly. The NHS does not get it's priorities right. Don't get me started!

[Sqad]

Zeuhl

"one 'give us your money and we'll look after you provided it's not too expensive'."

I'm afraid so Zeuhl.

[jake-the-peg]

I would imagine quite a bit of that is in transplant cases