Radiotherapy

(asked on 2nd September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in what age group have been funded for proton beam therapy in each of the last five years; and in what location each person was so treated.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 5th September 2014

The information is provided in the following table:

Year

Children

Adults

Total

Location

2009-10

8

12

20

France, USA and Switzerland

2010-11

30

20

50

USA (38 patients) and Switzerland (12)

2011-12

66

13

79

USA (majority of patients) and Switzerland

2012-13

83

16

99

USA (majority of patients) and Switzerland

2013-14

103*

21*

124*

All USA

*Figure includes treatments given and treatments due to be given following approval.

It is not possible to provide a more detailed analysis of age group by location of treatment because it might be possible to identify individual patients from the data.

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