Doctors face difficult conversations with patients with metastatic cancer for whom NHS treatments have failed. A growing problem is how to advise patients who opt to pursue expensive, experimental treatment in the private sector. This article reports on the crown funding sites helping people with advanced cancer spend thousands of pounds on such treatments and looks at ways to ensure patients and their donors are not being exploited.
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