Prostate Cancer: Ultrasonics
Commons · Question 56192 · Tabled 2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Dame Caroline Dinenage
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make it his policy to ensure that integrated care boards recommend high-intensity focused ultrasound to people with localised prostate cancer outside London.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 12 Jun 2025
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has developed interventional procedures guidance on high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment for prostate cancer and focal therapy using HIFU for localised prostate cancer. This type o...