Dabrafenib + Trametinib in cancer treatment
Dear Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust,
I would be grateful if you could please answer these questions relating to the usage of Dabrafenib + Trametinib in cancer treatment.
A) Over the previous 6 months, how many patients for the following diseases have been treated with a combination of Dabrafenib + Trametinib:
i) Metastatic Melanoma
ii) Adjuvant Melanoma
iii) BRAF mutated Lung Cancer
Many thanks for taking the time to answer these questions.
Yours faithfully,
Oliver Caswell
Dear Oliver Caswell
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Freedom of Information Team
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
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Dear Oliver Caswell
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Information Act 2000. Please find the response below. This response
covers the hospitals and services managed by the Royal Free London NHS
Foundation Trust, namely the Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital and
Chase Farm Hospital and associated group services.
The response
I would be grateful if you could please answer these questions relating to
the usage of Dabrafenib + Trametinib in cancer treatment.
1. Over the previous 6 months, how many patients for the following
diseases have been treated with a combination of Dabrafenib +
Trametinib:
a. Metastatic Melanoma
15 patients
b. Adjuvant Melanoma
13 patients
c. BRAF mutated Lung Cancer
<5* patients
* The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust does hold this information.
The trust considers that this information is exempt under Freedom of
Information Act 2000, Section 40(2) (personal information) as disclosure
of this level of detail could lead to the identification of individuals,
which would be in breach of Data Protection legislation. Although I cannot
confirm the exact figure, I can confirm that the number is less than five.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 introduces a broader concept of risk
of personal identifiable information because its test for deciding whether
personal data can be disclosed is whether disclosure to a member of the
public would breach the data protection principles. This means that public
authorities must assess whether releasing apparently anonymised data to a
member of the public would breach the data protection principles.
This is intended to ensure that public authorities take into account the
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could allow data to be combined to produce information that relates to and
identifies a particular individual - and that is therefore personal data.
Low statistical values increase the likelihood of seemingly anonymised
information being combined with other information to identify an
individual.
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Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Team
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
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77 Fleet Road, London, NW3 2QH
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