A Reflection On This Week’s Headlines, On World Cancer Day

This week, in the lead up to Sunday’s World Cancer Day, we have unsurprisingly seen a great number of headlines about the disease. They have painted a mixed picture about breast cancer in this country. We’ve welcomed fantastic news -  Perjeta, a truly life-changing drug for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer was approved by NICE for routine NHS use in England and Wales.This long-awaited victory means that women with incurable metastatic breast cancer could be offered over