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Liver Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Chemosat is made available on the NHS following its recommendation by NICE in 2021.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
28 Feb 2025
Target answer date
4 Mar 2025
Answer
11 Mar 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 28 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Chemosat is made available on the NHS following its recommendation by NICE in 2021.

  2. 4 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 11 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published guidance in 2021, through its interventional procedures programme, that recommends that chemosaturation can be used for patients with secondary liver metastases resulting from a primar...

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