The Scottish Medicines Consortium, which advises NHS bodies in Scotland about the status of new medicines, has supported the use of rituximab -- hailed as a breakthrough in leukaemia treatment -- for use with all chemotherapy.
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Thousands of Scots to benefit as NHS gets new leukaemia drug
Thousands of leukaemia sufferers have been given new hope of controlling the disease thanks to a decision to make a revolutionary drug available to all on the NHS in Scotland.
