Walking the Wall

Catherine has spent weeks and weeks preparing for August 2nd when she will set off to walk the 100km length of Hadrian’s Wall east to west across the north of England from Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway. She hopes to mark the 1900th anniversary of the Wall by completing her walk in eight days.

NICE Approval for Two Breast Cancer Drugs

Final draft guidance from NICE now recommends that two drugs to treat two different types of secondary or metastatic breast cancer be made available through the Cancer Drugs Fund. Piqray or alpelisib is a kinase inhibitor made by Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK. It is to be used with fulvestrant, the hormonal therapy, to treat hormone receptor…