Cancer

Department of Health written question – answered at on 26 November 2014.

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Photo of Mike Weatherley Mike Weatherley Conservative, Hove

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the extent of access on the NHS to new treatments for patients with rarer cancers.

Photo of George Freeman George Freeman The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended a number of treatments for rarer cancers. In addition, a number of drugs used in rarer cancers are available through the Cancer Drugs Fund administered by NHS England.

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