Brexit Britain handed huge cancer boost as EU red tape slashed to ‘speed up’ treatment – Daily Express

It links the UK to the US, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Singapore and Brazil. Officials have already hailed it for "speeding up the time it takes to get these new medicines to patients". Seven medicines have already been approved, in a move that could save scores of lives.

Four of the newly approved treatments are for lung cancer and breast cancer.

The other three are extensions of existing treatments.

EMA says it takes around a year for it to evaluate a medicine.

Then it will make a recommendation to the European Commission, which can take another two months to approve.

The first drug the MHRA approved under Project Orbis last May - AstraZeneca's lung cancer treatment Tagrisso - took the EMA almost a month longer to approve.

AstraZeneca's executive vice president of oncology Dave Fredrickson praised Project Orbis as a "welcome initiative that has already shown it can help accelerate the speed of getting innovative cancer medicines to patients in the UK and across the globe".

"It is vital for industry, regulators and health bodies to continue working closely together to make sure many more medicines can get to patients in the shortest possible time.

Some are not so impressed though, with experts warning speeding up the process could lead to corners being cut.

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Prostate, breast and lung cancers are said to be making up most of the absent cases.

The NHS is teaming up with Prostate Cancer UK to launch a landmark campaign next month to locate thousands of missing men.

Dame Cally Palmer, national cancer director at NHS England, said: Weve just agreed a campaign with Prostate Cancer UK where the NHS is supporting and funding something run through a charity, so were trying new initiatives that dont rely on individual charity fundraising, because thats been difficult too for them during the pandemic.

So the NHS needs to take the lead I think, with the support and advice of the charities. And we are doing that.

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Brexit Britain handed huge cancer boost as EU red tape slashed to 'speed up' treatment - Daily Express