Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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1017. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will include Thyrogen in the National Cancer Control Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33938/14]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Two care options are available for the preparation of patients who are diagnosed with thyroid cancer for radio-active iodine ablation - either withdrawal of oral thyroxine treatment or treatment with Thyrogen®. Both options are in line with international guidelines.

The treatment option utilised is determined by the prescribing consultant and the hospital’s Drugs and Therapeutics Committee.