Breast Cancer: Radiotherapy
(asked on 16th September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timescale is for making high-speed radiotherapy for breast cancer available on the NHS.
This question was answered on 5th November 2020
Breast cancer treatments are advancing all the time and this year is no exception. The publication of the 10-year results of the FAST-FORWARD Trial, which looked at 5 fraction radiotherapy to treat early breast cancer, is an exciting breakthrough which will enable people with breast cancer to be treated much more quickly and conveniently. All National Health Service radiotherapy providers in England are encouraged to adopt this approach.