Politicians will just find the next thing to be seen getting behind, and will move on to it, without looking back.
That includes any heralded cancer treatment initiatives. DCVax-l has zero chance of the NICE approving it as a prescriptive treatment.
How can it even be costed on a case by case basis when 87/100 patients will have no ‘meaningful’ benefit from its use .
The Doctor will have to know in advance that a patient will survive for an extended period of time first, else he won’t submit a request.
And if he has that kind of insight, there will be no need to prescribe the expensive treatment.
The standalone STUPP Protocol will be the prescribed treatment of choice for at least another decade to come,
Hospital exemptions are different, because any Government won’t care how private paying patients chose to spend their own money. That’s the individual’s prerogative !