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.
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.