 An editorial in "The Lancet Oncology" said that Saatchi was promoting "precisely the type of emotional response that evidence-based practice seeks to avoid", that the current UK law already provided for medical innovation, and that the bill's provisions threatened to undermine the hippocratic oath.Cancer Research UK has said there is "no pressing need" for new legislation.In November 2014 more than 100 medical professionals signed a letter to "The Times" saying that the existing law did not impede innovation as has been claimed, and that the proposed new legislation could have the unintended consequence of weakening the evidence base for research by leading to an accumulation of merely anecdotal evidence.