Prostate Cancer

(asked on 2nd February 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to make high-dose prostate therapy available on the NHS.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 10th February 2016

Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is commissioned by NHS England. NHS England’s commitment was to ensure that a minimum of 24% of patients requiring radical radiotherapy had access to inverse planned IMRT from April 2013, and this has been achieved nationally.

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