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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Ben Mitchell

Petition for cancer treatment to be funded reaches 46,000 signatories

A medical team perform a selective internal radiation therapy (Sirt) procedure (Planets Cancer Charity/PA) - (PA Media)

More than 46,000 people have signed a petition calling on the NHS to fund a life-changing cancer treatment for patients with neuroendocrine tumours (NETs).

The cancer charity Planets is leading the campaign for the treatment, known as selective internal radiation therapy (Sirt), to be made available through the NHS after it was approved for use more than a year ago.

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