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Last Updated: Sunday, 18 December 2005, 14:41 GMT
Cancer drug row nurse aids others
Barbara Clark
Barbara Clark was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year
A Somerset-based former nurse who won her battle to receive a life-saving breast cancer drug free on the NHS is now campaigning to help others.

Barbara Clark from Bridgwater was the first woman in the UK to be prescribed Herceptin after threatening a health authority with legal action.

Now the 49-year-old is raising money to help women who are still having to pay.

Last week she travelled to Stoke-on Trent to deliver a cheque and says she is determined to continue the campaign.

Ms Clark was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year, but because the illness was not terminal, she was told she could not have the treatment.

Somerset Coast Primary Care Trust finally ruled she could, after "looking very carefully at her circumstances".

Herceptin is widely used on patients whose breast cancer is at an advanced stage, or those who are terminally ill.


SEE ALSO:
Nurse wins breast cancer drug row
03 Oct 05 |  Somerset
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08 Jun 05 |  Somerset


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