The senior cancer specialist who treated former Labour Cabinet Minister Mo Mowlam has said legal assisted suicide will lead to the premature deaths of patients who might survive for years.
Professor Mark Glaser, a consultant oncologist, said that if Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill became law it would be a "disaster" for patients like Dr Mowlam who confounded expectations of imminent death and went on to live for years.
The Private Member's Bill aims to permit assisted suicide for terminally ill patients who doctors say have less than 12 months to live.
