A professor has told Sky News the drug could 'save thousands of lives across the UK every year'.
Professor Ashkan was one of the first doctors in the country to use the 5-ALA treatment over a decade ago.He told Sky News:"This drug helps us because it can differentiate and delineate a tumour a lot better than it would be under an ordinary white light, so the better we can see, the more clear the margins.
It added that the price"will inevitably go up" and it will"consider increasing prices" after Britain leaves the European Union.The Labour MP was diagnosed with a glioblastoma, the most common cancerous brain tumour in adults, in May 2017. "A year on, I feel lots of things. I miss her more and more everyday if that's possible, but I also have a huge sense of pride of what we're achieving in her name in the way she would want it to be done which is full of optimism, forward thinking and with huge ambition."
"And that's how I feel because this is a really important step but there is so much work that needs to be done, not just for brain cancer patients but for all those patients who are told their cancer is untreatable at the point of diagnosis." "A cancer diagnosis is life-changing, but I want every single patient to feel reassured that they have access to the best and fastest care in our wonderful NHS."
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