[lit-ideas] Re: Genentech tries to block effective medicine in order to profit
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:37:28 +0100
>Unless Avastin is approved in the UK by the National
>Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) it will not be
>universally available within the NHS. But because
>Genentech declines to apply for a licence for this use
> of Avastin, Nice cannot consider it
this is a real problem here. It happened with Herceptin for
use in early breast cancer, too (but why the drug manufacturers
didn't initially apply for a licence is unclear in that case).
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From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 4:25 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Genentech tries to block effective
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> > [Original Message]
> > From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 6/18/2006 10:43:05 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Genentech tries to block effective
medicine in order
> to profit
> >
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