Life-extending drug for sufferers of asbestos lung disease will finally be available on the NHS

Life-extending drug for sufferers of asbestos lung disease will finally be available on the NHS For the first time, patients with ravaged lungs caused by breathing in asbestos will be entitled to a life-extending medicine previously denied them by the NHS.

A successful campaign against the 'inhuman restrictions' placed on the drugs – antifibrotics – mean those with pulmonary fibrosis caused by asbestos inhalation will be among more than 15,000 Britons with the disease who will now have the chance to extend their life by two years or more. The Daily Mail