Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 56192

Prostate Cancer: Ultrasonics

Tabled: 2 June 2025
Answered: 12 June 2025

Question

Dame Caroline Dinenage

ConservativeGosport

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make it his policy to ensure that integrated care boards recommend high-intensity focused ultrasound to people with localised prostate cancer outside London.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has developed interventional procedures guidance on high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment for prostate cancer and focal therapy using HIFU for localised prostate cancer. This type o...

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