Childhood cancer: is red tape stopping the development of new drugs?
Jane Deith
This month I've been investigating childhood cancer and the fact despite there being many exciting new drugs, we'll never know whether some of them could have helped cure children with cancer. This is sometimes down to a system of 'waivers' within EU rules on drug trials; sometimes down to trials failing in adults and being pulled in children too.
Anyway, the programme, File on 4, went out last night. Many thanks to the parents who told me their children's stories. Thanks also to the experts who made the complex comprehensible and guided me, and I hope you, through the issues - namely Professor Richard Sullivan and Professor Pam Kearns. Click on the link below to listen to the programme.