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Charities launch appeal to reverse Nice decision on life-saving cancer treatment

Paul Madley, 66, had the Tecartus treatment (Paul Madley/PA) - (Paul Madley/PA)

A formal appeal has been sent to the NHS spending watchdog regarding its decision to remove a potentially life-saving cancer treatment from the health service in England and Wales.

Tecartus – which engineers a patient’s own immune cells to kill cancer – was made available for people with a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma through the Cancer Drugs Fund while more data was collected on its long-term benefits.

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