Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 85024

Brain Cancer: Medical Treatments

Tabled: 24 October 2025

Answered: 6 November 2025

Named Day

Question

Mr Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to request that NICE begin an appraisal of the Optune Tumour Treating Fields device for the treatment of glioblastoma.

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed

The Department has no plans to request that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) appraise tumour treating fields (TTF), or to intervene in NICE’s established guidance prioritisation process.NICE considered the use of TTF in its gui...

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