Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 6053

Liver Cancer: Medical Treatments

Tabled: 4 October 2024
Answered: 14 October 2024

Question

Dame Caroline Dinenage

ConservativeGosport

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of selective internal radiation therapy for NHS liver cancer patients.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Department has made no such assessment, however the National Health Service has concluded that there is not enough evidence to make selective internal radiation therapy available to treat liver cancer patients at this time. The assessment can be found...

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