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Prescribing Postcodes are alive and well - unlike patients
Dr Maggie Harding (letters, 12 August) does a disservice to women with ovarian cancer. She draws attention to the June Effective Health Care Bulletin on the management of gynaecological cancers, which recommends that Paclitaxel and Carboplatin should be the treatment of choice for this disease. Yet she congratulates health authorities ...
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Use of Paclitaxel in ovarian cancer is justified
The congratulations offered by Dr Harding to those health authorities yet to make Paclitaxel available to their patients with ovarian cancer are misplaced. The evidence was summarised in Effective Health Care and is set out more fully in the research evidence volume of the Guidance on Commissioning Cancer Services - ...
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