Letter: Real alternative.(Letters)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: January 16, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Dr Brian Gibbons

I AM writing in response to the headline 'Assembly won't pay to save my life' in Friday's Daily Post.

This gives the impression that patients with prostate cancer in Wales have no access to treatment. This is not the case.

Patients have long had access to wide-beamradiotherapy and surgery to treat their prostate cancer.

These two procedures are available locally in hospitals in Wales and have been successful in e...

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