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> No they don't. This is not true. That is literally what QALY is. > Find just one single medication that i) extends life by 5 years ii) costs just £10,000 pe
by chimeracoder 8y ago
> No they don't. This is not true.
That is literally what QALY is.
> Find just one single medication that i) extends life by 5 years ii) costs just £10,000 per year and iii) has been banned.
It seems like you don't understand how coverage works for cancer treatment. The question isn't whether the medication is banned outright - it's whether it will be approved to be used for a specific patient in their treatment plan (paid for by the NHS).
- DanBC 8y ago> It seems like you don't understand how coverage works for cancer treatment. The question isn't whether the medication is banned outright - it's whether it will be approved to be used for a specific patient in their treatment plan (paid for by the NHS). Please tell me how you think cancer drug funding works in England, because I'm pretty sure you're wrong. But let's assume for the moment that you're right: please link to an article about a patient who would have been kept alive for 5 years if they'd been given treatment but they were denied the treatment because it cost more than £50,000. If anything the UK was spending too much on cancer drugs that provided no benefit - no extension of life, combined with unpleasant side effects that lowered quality of life. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26785-the-uks-cancer-drugs-fund-does-more-harm-than-good/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26785-the-uks-cancer-... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35494660 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35494660
- chimeracoder 8y ago> Please tell me how you think cancer drug funding works in England, because I'm pretty sure you're wrong. Just to be clear: you're telling me that you think QALY calculations are not factored into the decisions of which treatments will be covered for an individual cancer patient under the NHS?