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Monday 12 December 2011

Army veteran faces last Christmas with his children after being refused life-prolonging cancer drug... because he has wrong postcode

A former soldier is facing his last Christmas with his children after being refused a life-prolonging cancer drug because he lives in the wrong town.


Mark Bannister’s long battle with cancer has culminated in a fight for the drug Avastin which his consultant said could give him vital time with his daughter Sophie, six, and son Thomas, five.

But NHS bosses have refused to fund the medicine, even though it is readily available to patients just 15 miles from where Mr Bannister lives in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.     Full Read

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