Cancer: Tomography
(asked on 1st February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the availability of the tracer dye used in PSMA PET scans; and if he will make an assessment of the impact of the level of availability of the tracer dye on cancer patients in (a) Greater Manchester, (b) the North West and (c) England.
This question was answered on 7th February 2023
Medicine supply problems can occur for a number of reasons and occasionally the National Health Service experiences temporary and localised shortages of specific medicines.
We are not aware of any supply issues with tracer dyes used in PSMA PET scans.