Patients 'lack money for drugs'

Courtesy BBC News | Health | World Edition  Tue, 08/12/2008 - 6:26pm

Nearly half of cancer patients in England are cutting back on basic essentials like food to pay for prescriptions, a poll suggests.



 

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