A TRAINEE teacher with life-threatening cancer has launched a legal battle against health chiefs after they refused to pay for her treatment.
Philippa Bigham, 28, from Frimley, Surrey, has two years to live unless she is given a new drug which will enable her to undergo a life-saving bone marrow transplant.
But she was dealt a blow when her case was ruled unexceptional – despite having a rare form of Hodgkin’s lymphoma which does not respond to heavy chemotherapy. Surrey Primary Care Trust then refused to fund the £3,000 treatment.
The course, which was prescribed by her doctors, is available on the NHS elsewhere in the country.
