Cancer patient's desperate bid to raise money for lifeline medicine not available in Scotland
dailyrecord.co.ukcancer.Angi Lamb was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer in November after repeatedly being told by her GP that she had a virus.She will never know if those vital missed weeks could have prevented her cancer becoming so advanced but she is certain she would not have suffered a paralysed vocal cord, which affects her speech, if it had been caught earlier.She has had chemotherapy and radiotherapy but the only hope she has of extending her life is with the drug Keytruda.It is not yet licensed for small cell use in the UK and clinical trials are still ongoing into its effectiveness.
It is already a prescribed medicine for non small cell lung cancer but efficacy has still to be established for the other use in this country.However, it has been.
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