Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 82760

Prostate Cancer: Medical Treatments

Tabled: 16 October 2025
Answered: 22 October 2025
Named Day

Question

Mr Calvin Bailey

LabourLeyton and Wanstead

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Health and Social Care on 17 June 2025, Official Report col 352, what his planned timescale is for a decision of the NHS England Clini

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
In regard to funding for abiraterone specifically, abiraterone is not licensed for use in the treatment of high-risk, non-metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, and as such cannot be evaluated by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellenc...

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