Submitted on Tuesday 1st March 2022
Rejected on Monday 7th March 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ask NICE to make OPTUNE brain cancer treatment available on the NHS
NICE have deemed OPTUNE by NOVOCURE to not be cost effective. This treatment is saving lives and extending life expectancy in the USA ( FDA APPROVED) and in EUROPE ( CE APPROVED)
Brain cancer patients are having to self fund (£250,000 per annum) or go abroad .
We want NICE to reconsider.
This treatment can offer very good quality of life and given that the number of treatment options are limited, NICE should reconsider.
Treatment should be available to all, not to just those that can afford it.
We would like to as Government to investigate this issue again and make NICE look at the quality of life and hope it can offer brain cancer patients. Even if this is a shorter amount of time than NICE deems acceptable.
The more patients using this will reduce the cost overall.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.
Decisions about what treatment NICE recommends is a matter for NICE, not the UK Government or Parliament. We could accept a petition calling on the Government to fund OPTUNE brain cancer treatment through the NHS, if that's something you'd like to happen.
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