Radiotherapy

(asked on 19th October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria are applied for the use of intraoperative radiotherapy for treating cancer by the NHS.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 27th October 2015

NHS England does not currently commission intraoperative radiotherapy for the treatment of cancer. To date it has been undertaken in a small number of centres in England as part of a clinical trial.

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