Brokenshire backs calls for new NHS approach to experimental cancer treatment
(World News UK)

Former Northern Ireland secretary James Brokenshire has voiced support for Dame Tessa Jowell´s calls to allow cancer patients to be free to take the risk of undergoing more experimental treatments on the NHS. The Old Bexley and Sidcup MP, who returned to Parliament on Tuesday after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, said it was time to `challenge the thinking` around ways to treat the disease. Baroness Jowell, who has brain cancer, has called for more opportunities for `adaptive trials` in which patients can undergo different treatments, and if one does not work they can immediately move on to the next....