Dame Tessa’s brain cancer dye roll-out wish honoured

ONE of Dame Tessa Jowell’s last requests is to be honoured in new official guidance on brain tumour care.

Dame Tessa called 5-amino levulinic acid, a dye which helps doctors identify cancerous tissue more accurately, ately, the “gold standard” in one of her last House of Lords speeches.

The Labour ex-minister died d of a brain tumour in May aged 70. 0.

She said the dye, also known n as

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the pink drink, should be used in all of England’s 27 brain surgery centres. Now newly- published guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence state that 5-ALA should be used in initial brain cancer surgery for some patients. The Th move could cost the NHS up to £5million a year. Cameron Ca Miller of The Brain Tumour Tum Charity, which Dame Tessa worked with, said: “This represents re real progress.”