It will free your doctor to consider new treatments and ideas, safely and responsibly, with your consent.

So when standard treatments are exhausted, you and your doctor can then consider what other options may be available, if any.

 

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“The Bill seeks to support doctors who endeavour to act in the best interest of their patients without the fear from litigation.

“It deters from irresponsible experimentation but encourages a much needed attitude change of innovation in the provision of care to cancer patients.”

Professor Ahmed Ashour Ahmed, Professor of Gynaecological Oncology,  Consultant Gynaecological Oncology Surgeon and Scientist, University of Oxford

 

 

 

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 →WATCH: Debbie Binner, mother and campaigner who lost her 18 year old daughter to Ewings Sarcoma.

“Once Chloe only had 6 months left to live, how could any radical potential new treatment, actually I’d prefer innovative rather than radical, have been defined as too risky or too dangerous. These words risky, dangerous, are utterly meaningless in this context.

“What if doctors tried something different, something new, something promising. Chloe might well have died anyway, and I accept that, but surely what she would have left behind would have been more clinically valuable for other children, for other teenagers.”

Debbie is speaking at the House of Lords.