Internal Reference Number: FOI_8724
Date Request Received: 26/06/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 30/06/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: MICTs
Request Category: Companies
Question Number 1: I would be most grateful if you could please provide details on the use of Minimally Invasive Cancer Therapies (MICTs), commissioned or delivered within your Trust area during the 2024-2025 financial year. The types of treatments MICTs include are: • Cryoablation • Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) • High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Please confirm if your Trust does or does not commission any of these procedures. If so, please list the therapies involved. | |
Answer To Question 1: None of these treatments are provided in Salisbury. Our patients would potentially be referred to a Tertiary centre to receive these if recommended. Response from Cancer Team: We don’t provide any of these treatments – we’d tend to send patients to University Hospital Southampton if needed. | |
Question Number 2: In addition, if your Trust carry out any of these procedures, I would be most grateful if you could please provide me with details of the number of times each therapy was used or delivered within the 2024 – 2025 financial year. | |
Answer To Question 2: N/A | |
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