<p>Cancer Treatment</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:58 pm on 28 June 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:58, 28 June 2016

The Member talks of malignant melanoma, a disease that I unfortunately know well, and it took my mother’s life. It is indeed a hugely invasive cancer; if it spreads, there is no way—or, hitherto, there’s been no way—of stopping it. With the new treatments fund, as soon as a drug is approved then the money will be available to roll out that drug across the whole of Wales.