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Cancer medicine is undergoing a revolution, with scores of new treatments targeting specific tumours coming on stream
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Public patients may now have to wait up to two years longer than all private patients for access to innovative therapies
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Laya Healthcare and Irish Life Health must be unsettled as leading oncologists clearly direct patients to rival VHI
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Health insurers Irish Life and Laya Healthcare are ‘hiding behind’ the lengthy approval process for treatments, say oncologists Prof Ray McDermott and Prof John Crown
Andy Creevy says his wife’s health improved almost immediately after starting trial