Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 6054

Liver Cancer: Medical Treatments

Tabled: 4 October 2024
Answered: 11 October 2024

Question

Dame Caroline Dinenage

ConservativeGosport

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out a timetable for providing selective internal radiation therapy to NHS liver cancer patients.

Answer

Karin Smyth
Each National Health Service liver cancer patient will be offered the treatment their clinicians consider to be the most effective, and this may include the use of selective internal radiation therapy.