A terminally ill cancer patient who claims natural remedies keep her healthy is fighting a decision to ban the medicines on the NHS.
Jette Wilkinson, right, of Horley, near Banbury, believes homeopathic injections and tablets stem the progress of her liver cancer.
The 60-year-old grandmother buys her remedies through a company in Germany because her GP is not allowed to prescribe them.
Though patients in other parts of the UK can receive complementary therapy on the NHS, Oxfordshire Health Authority will not fund the treatment.
Mrs Wilkinson was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago and was prescribed Tamoxifen, which did not work. The cancer spread to her liver and she was prescribed Arimedix, which also had no benefit.
She said: "Chemotherapy cured the breast cancer, but I am terminally ill because of the liver cancer.
"I went to a clinic in Denmark and was given homeopathic medicines that I inject daily. I'm trying to get these on the NHS. I have blood tests every month and recent good results show the medicine must be working."
Homeopathic medicine is not banned by the Department of Health and health authorities are free to fund them.
But Oxfordshire Health Authority will still not pay for the treatment, which Mrs Wilkinson said would cost £3,500 a year.
She said: "I'm angry because it's allowed to fund these remedies, but choose not to. It says there's no proof it works."
Her case is now being supported by Banbury Tory MP Tony Baldry, who has written to Health Minister Alan Milburn.
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