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EU loophole means children with cancer are denied drugs
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- Created on Wednesday, 19 February 2014 20:22
- Published on Wednesday, 19 February 2014 20:22
- Written by marina
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In spite of a major drive to develop targeted drugs to "personalise" cancer treatments, children with cancer still have to put up with drugs that have remained largely unchanged for decades.
Currently it's too easy for pharmaceutical companies to focus their research only on adults. The result is that children with cancer are denied access to new developments in cancer treatments.
An EU law was introduced in 2007 to address this imbalance, but companies can too easily seek waivers to get around considering children when they develop cancer drugs. And experts have been calling for EU rules to be changed so that more potentially life-saving cancer drugs can be tested on children.
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