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2007.05.31 - The Telegraph - Wilms Tumour Child
Dream come true for Angelina ballerina Last Updated: 3:13am BST 31/05/2007
A four-year-old girl's dream of being a ballerina for the day came true yesterday.
Angelina Vidler, who has a rare form of cancer, rehearses with the Royal Ballet’s Francesca Filpi
Angelina Vidler, of Shoeburyness, Essex, who suffers from a rare form of cancer, rehearsed at the Royal Opera House.
With her own silver outfit and ballet slippers, she joined ballerinas from the Royal Ballet rehearsing on stage. Her wish was made possible by the Rays of Sunshine Children's Charity, which helps seriously ill youngsters.
Her mother, Hilary, said: "Angelina enjoyed every minute of it and couldn't take her eyes off the beautiful ballerinas. This wish has given us all, as a family, so many happy memories."
Angelina, who was also given a signed pair of ballet shoes, is receiving treatment for Wilms Tumour, a form of Kidney Cancer.
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2007.05.12 - The Telegraph - Sutent denied
The drugs the NHS won't give you Last Updated: 2:25am BST 12/05/2007
Suninitib (Sutent) For Kidney Cancer.
Licensed, but the Department of Health has yet to refer it to N.I.C.E. for a recommendation.
John Quance, 57
The former fireman was told he could not have the drug Sutent because the NHS would not pay for it.
Mr Quance, who has been diagnosed with Kidney Cancer, cashed in his pension and remortgaged his house to pay for it privately, but fears that he may have to sell his home unless the NHS steps in. Cornwall Primary Care Trust said it was not prepared to pay the £22,000-a-year cost of the drug until it was approved by N.I.C.E..
Mr Quance said: "I have worked all my life, I have been in the forces, the prison service and the fire service for 30-odd years and I feel a little bit abandoned.
"The staff and the hospital have been excellent but it is a little disappointing not to get funding when it has been proved [the drug] is working."
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2006.11.15 - The Telegraph - Kidney Cancer Vaccine Trovax
British Kidney Cancer vaccine 'wipes out tumours'
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 1:56am GMT 15/11/2006
Two Americans with Kidney Cancer have had their tumours eradicated after being injected with a vaccine based on a genetically altered virus.
Two more patients had a partial response to the vaccine. The tumours shrank in the two phase II trials on 24 patients with two common forms of kidney cancer.
TroVax, developed by Oxford BioMedica, a British gene therapy company, was tested by Dr Robert Amato, of the Methodist Hospital in Houston, who presented the results at a recent symposium in Prague, Czech Republic.
"Both patients that appear to be complete responders have previously been treated and have been given targeted treatments," said Dr Amato. "But now with this vaccine we are seeing striking responses.
"We need to find out why some patients are responding and others aren't."
A worldwide study on 700 patients is now under way.
The trials are designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Trovax as a single agent, injected seven times over 41 weeks, and in combination with standard therapy.
To date, the two trials have enrolled patients with progressive Kidney Cancer .
All patients had been given Surgery and Chemotherapy.
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