Sponsored by
Cancer sufferer may get drugs in dramatic U-turn
IT'S the news that Rugby cancer-sufferer Russ Jones has been waiting months to hear.
Russ, 63, has been told by that he can have the life-prolonging drug Sutent funded for him by Warwickshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) providing a scan result that he has next week is successful.
The news comes after Russ saw his previous application for the 3,500 a month drug rejected by the PCT.
But at an appeal hearing on Wednesday a PCT panel agreed to fund the drug providing a scan shows that the Sutent Russ took as part of a months trial has been successful in treating his kidney cancer.
Russ's wife Val said: "I'm just glad that things are moving forward now and if Russ can get the drug that would be wonderful news."
The Advertiser launched its Last Hope appeal in June to help riase funds and awarnesses for Russ Jones and Colin Howe, both from Rugby.
Email to a friend
Print this page- BREAKING NEWS: woman dies following A5 accident near Clifton upon Dunsmore and Lilbourne
- Ex-fireman and and Rugby father of three locked up after dealing heroin
- Street lights to switch to part-night operation in various Rugby and other parts of Warwickshire
- OPERATION LASER: Judge hands out a total of 160 years of prison sentences to some of the biggest drug dealers in Rugby
- Police close A5 after serious accident near Clifton upon Dunsmore
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Rugby
Friday 25 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 11 C to 25 C
Wind Speed: 17 mph
Wind direction: East
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 11 C to 22 C
Wind Speed: 17 mph
Wind direction: East
