Cancer sufferers given experimental drugs

Telegraph: "Terminally-ill cancer patients are being used as human guinea pigs to test experimental drugs which may give them one last chance of beating the disease."The Department of Health has given its approval to a network of 19 hospital units where patients who have no other hope of a cure can agree to take drugs which might be years away from being approved. The first of the Centres for Experimental Cancer Medicine has already opened at Bart’s Hospital in London, and others are being established in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.