Should advanced cancer patients always be given drugs to prolong life?

If you or a family member have been given drugs as part of your advanced cancer treatment, or you're a clinician who prescribes them, we'd like to hear from you

Surgery and radiotherapy are effective for curing some cancers early on but many patients in the advanced stages are given expensive drugs in the hope of prolonging life. Is too much money spent in researching cancer drugs and too little on surgery, radiotherapy and preventing cancer?

There has been much hype from drug companies, doctors and the media who believe advanced cancer patients should have access to these late stage drugs. Though the NHS foots the bill for patients in the UK, many in the US have spent thousands of dollars on treatments.