Scots mum fighting cancer running out of money after being forced to pay for life-saving drug sold at fraction of price in England
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dailyrecord.co.ukcancer faces running out of money for a life-extending drug available in England at a fraction of the cost.Linzi Page, 37, has been forced to pay £1400 every three weeks for Avastin, a treatment unfunded on the NHS that is keeping tumours in her bowel, liver and lung at bay.The medicine is giving her precious time with son Calan, six, and three-year-old daughter Charlotte, after she was given two years to live in April 2018.But Linzi, of Burntisland in Fife, will soon no longer be able to pay NHS Fife for the drug that she believes is keeping her alive.And she has been left devastated to find patients in some English and Welsh health boards are being given access to Avastin for as little as £350 a cycle, while she is charged four times as.
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