Patients whose lives were ruined after being ‘needlessly given cancer drug for years’ sue NHS trust

Patients at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust were given the powerful chemotherapy for longer than necessary, their lawyers say - (Getty Images)

More than 20 patients who say their quality of life was wrecked when they were needlessly given a highly toxic cancer drug are suing the NHS trust involved.

Some people were prescribed temozolomide – which should normally be used for only six months – for more than a decade during treatment by the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.