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Question follow-through · 64681

Prostate Cancer: Hormone Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the randomised control trial study report entitled Cost utility analysis of adding abiraterone acetate plus prednisone/prednisolone to long term hormone therapy in newly diagnosed

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Jul 2025
Target answer date
4 Jul 2025
Answer
9 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the randomised control trial study report entitled Cost utility analysis of adding abiraterone acetate plus prednisone/prednisolone to long term hormone therapy in newly diagnosed

  2. 4 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    NHS England considered abiraterone as an off-label treatment for hormone sensitive, non-metastatic prostate cancer through its clinical policy development process in 2024/25. Through this process, NHS England confirmed that there was sufficient supporting...

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16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2025 to Question 64682 on Prostate Cancer: Hormone Treatments, if his Department will publish the Equality and Health Inequalities Impact Assessment for abirateron

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Abiraterone

17 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of men in England with newly diagnosed high-risk, non-metastatic prostate cancer who would be eligible for abiraterone under the eligibility crit

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Abiraterone

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