Question follow-through · 85024
Brain Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to request that NICE begin an appraisal of the Optune Tumour Treating Fields device for the treatment of glioblastoma.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 6 Nov 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to request that NICE begin an appraisal of the Optune Tumour Treating Fields device for the treatment of glioblastoma.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Department has no plans to request that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) appraise tumour treating fields (TTF), or to intervene in NICE’s established guidance prioritisation process.NICE considered the use of TTF in its gui...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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