Sufferers of rare cancers to have free access to new cutting edge treatments

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What the petition asks

Petition The Right Honorable Jeremy Hunt to persuade NICE to allow sufferers of rare cancers to have free access to new cutting edge treatments that are freely available to sufferers of more common cancers, such as Melanoma. My wife Beryl has a very rare Small Cell Carcinoma of the Ovary.

Following 13 cycles of chemotherapy Beryl is now undergoing an experimental course of immunotherapy in the form of "Pembrolizumab". Had Beryl been suffering from Melanoma she would have been able to access Pembrolizumab for free on the NHS. Although NICE have licensed Pembrolizumab for Melanoma, it is not licensed for her type of cancer. There are not enough sufferers to support a formal trial. We find the decision not to fund Beryl's, and other rare cancer sufferers', care very unjust.

Timeline

29 Apr 2016	Petition opened for signatures
29 Oct 2016	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 746

Status Closed

Opened 29 Apr 2016

Closed 29 Oct 2016

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