Colchicine
(asked on 27th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with (a) pharmaceutical companies and (b) the Royal Colleges on making colchicine available on the NHS for the treatment of cancer.
This question was answered on 2nd November 2015
No such discussions have taken place. We understand that a potential treatment for cancer derived from colchicine is currently in development and clinical trials are due to start in 2016.