Asda’s announcement of selling cancer drugs without making profit has led to Sainsbury’s and Superdrug joining the league as they confirmed they would also sell the medicines at cost price.

This arrives as good news for those who have to spend thousands of punds on cancer fighting drugs. The policy starts on Monday. Patients are forced to buy drugs on their own as NHS does not fund them.

People are forced to take loans and mortgage things to buy these medicines.

Asda’s announcement has also bought plans by the Government to launch from April 2011 a £200million cancer drug fund to give patients better access to medicines in limelight.

Customers will have to pay £2,167.71 for a pack of 30 for the lung-cancer drug Iressa. On the other hand, one had to pay £2,601.25 at Lloyds Pharmacy and £3,251.57 at Boots.

Asda’s chief executive Andy Clarke, who lost his parents to cancer, said, ‘Saving people money so they can live better is viewed by many as just the marketing slogan of our parent company, Walmart.”