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To: UK Government, Department of Health and Philip Hammond
Dont take our cancer treatment away!
We have seen the NHS budgets reduced, increased, reduced and debated but still we are in trouble despite Government seeming to think that all is OK in the NHS. As part of the financial crisis in the NHS we are now seeing an even darker turn with rationing of treatment for what can be classed as terminal or chronic diseases such as cancer.
This petition is to ask Philip Hammond and/or the UK Government to work to protect treatment for those terminally or chronically ill i.e. with cancer. If you, or your Mum or Dad or daughter or son or husband or wife needed this treatment - would'nt you also want it to be protected. Mindful also that some forecasts suggest that 1 in 2 of the population will get cancer at some point in their lives - this situation will effect us all at some point.
Why is this important?
I personally have just got over breast cancer in 2017 and like so many of us, 1 in 8 now in the UK population, I am hoping and working hard with treatment to try to ensure it doesn't come back - but then part of that future is not in my hands.
I have seen men and women, young and old experience cancer - some have survived others not. But at some point, unfortunately this disease will effect us all at some point.
Please join me in petitioning government to protect cancer treatment and its diagnosis - our lives matter as much as anyone elses'!
Help us to save our lives - and that includes your's ....
