Poor children with cancer 'left to die'

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1149020,00.html

Cancer groups in London yesterday demanded that basic life-saving cancer drugs be made available to poor children who they said were suffering and dying because of lack of funds.
Each year, of the 250,000 children diagnosed with the disease worldwide, up to 80% die because treatments are not available, or affordable, in poor countries.

Cancer charities and patient groups said one way to help would be to put basic cancer drugs on the World Health Organisation essential drug list so they can be given to children who need them.

"The same sort of model that is being used for Aids drugs should apply to these," said Tim Eden, president of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology, referring to moves to reduce prices of anti-Aids drugs. "There is an assumption that treating cancer is expensive, but it doesn't have to be."
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imagine watching your child die of cancer because you couldn't get or afford the drugs.

a planet full of enraged parents.

they hate us for our freedoms? maybe they hate us for our drugs.

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1. right now, in America, 200,000 Americans will DIE this year from

diabetes...when bush* pushes NO INSURANCE for 40 Million Americans..that means that Americans are KILLED for lack of insulin, usually within a few days...couple that with massive unemployment and it won't take long to find someone YOU know fighting to stay alive under bush* AmeriKKKa.....