United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 1691
Cancer: Tomography
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9 January 2020
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14 January 2020 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what NHS policy is on offering (a) PET, (b) CT and (c) MRI scans to patients undergoing treatment for primary cancer in order to identify whether they have any secondary cancer.
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9 January 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what NHS policy is on offering (a) PET, (b) CT and (c) MRI scans to patients undergoing treatment for primary cancer in order to identify whether they have any secondary cancer.
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14 January 2020
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The optimal staging of cancers by use of Computerized Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) or Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning, either individually or in combination, varies between cancer types and is guided by clinical consensus,...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-01-09/1691
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1169734
- uk · wq-1169734 · source updated 14 January 2020