Stop the South East Coast Specialist Funding Groups Blanket Ban on NHS Funding for Cyberknife Radiotherapy Now Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/stop-the-south-east-coast-specialist-funding-groups-blanket-ban-on-nhs-funding-for-cyberknife-radiotherapy-now.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:50 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Anonymous [Signature #605] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21051298?utm_medium=rss Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:46:11 UTC 21051298 Anonymous [Signature #604] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19321788?utm_medium=rss Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:05:19 UTC 19321788 Mr Peter Cobrin [Signature #603] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17990433?utm_medium=rss The Royal Sussex County was scheduled to purchase this technology in July 2013 but the charitable donation to fund this fell through.

]]> Tue, 7 Oct 2014 04:39:37 UTC 17990433 Mr T Kaye [Signature #602] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16660612?utm_medium=rss Absolutely absurd that this technology is not available to Kent residents. A blanket ban must be challenged, via the HR courts if needs be. The argument presented by these authorities are flawed. It is money and money alone that they are thinking of.

]]> Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:00:50 UTC 16660612 Mrs Louise Pennington [Signature #601] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16448220?utm_medium=rss It is disgraceful that this potentially life saving procedure is not available in East Sussex NHS hospitals. Post code lottery it must be and should be stopped. Will be writing to my MP.

]]> Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:21:45 UTC 16448220 Lady Louise Bentinck [Signature #600] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16441893?utm_medium=rss Cyberknife should be made available for cancer patients in East Sussex. It is there, but NHS patients are being denied this innovative treatment that could save or prolong life.

]]> Wed, 18 Dec 2013 08:38:54 UTC 16441893 Miss Shamiso Chimbo [Signature #599] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15491520?utm_medium=rss I have researched about cyberknife as a possible treatment for inoperable tumours and the research shows that this could be promising for many cancer patients. I think that this should be made more widely available for people.

]]> Mon, 8 Jul 2013 07:57:24 UTC 15491520 Mrs Athina Kyriakidou [Signature #598] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15430546?utm_medium=rss Sun, 23 Jun 2013 07:27:38 UTC 15430546 Mrs Judith Templeman [Signature #597] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15232972?utm_medium=rss Sat, 11 May 2013 12:01:24 UTC 15232972 Mrs Christine Norton [Signature #596] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15138190?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Apr 2013 04:46:38 UTC 15138190 Mrs Mary Ekins [Signature #595] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15138129?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Apr 2013 04:24:34 UTC 15138129 ms lisa noye [Signature #594] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15136757?utm_medium=rss Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:43:08 UTC 15136757 Mrs Colette WILD [Signature #593] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15035169?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Apr 2013 05:12:42 UTC 15035169 mrs mandy barker [Signature #592] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15013144?utm_medium=rss everyone deserves the best chance to live longer

]]> Thu, 4 Apr 2013 08:24:56 UTC 15013144 mrs frances silver [Signature #591] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14956975?utm_medium=rss My husband has been fortunate to have cyber knife under a caring oncologist thank g-d for private health care

]]> Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:33:01 UTC 14956975 Miss Anita Funston [Signature #590] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14545632?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:31:22 UTC 14545632 mrs clare lumby [Signature #589] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14013115?utm_medium=rss Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:50:16 UTC 14013115 Mrs Maralyn Azzopardi [Signature #588] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14007089?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Oct 2012 05:04:57 UTC 14007089 miss karin Hines [Signature #587] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13972878?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:27:16 UTC 13972878 Dr Elaine Robinson [Signature #586] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13968674?utm_medium=rss Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:59:16 UTC 13968674 Mrs Deborah Churchill [Signature #585] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13953393?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:50:58 UTC 13953393 Mrs Pauline Hodgkinson [Signature #584] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13889296?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Oct 2012 05:29:41 UTC 13889296 Mr Anonymous [Signature #583] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13882017?utm_medium=rss my father has cancer located in his liver and lungs and i am interested to see whether this form of treatment will be available to help him.

]]> Thu, 4 Oct 2012 05:34:04 UTC 13882017 Mrs Joan Huggins [Signature #582] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13874999?utm_medium=rss Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:15:02 UTC 13874999 Mrs Denise Thompson [Signature #581] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13873518?utm_medium=rss Wed, 3 Oct 2012 07:24:22 UTC 13873518 Ms Julie Dovey [Signature #580] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13859568?utm_medium=rss Using stereotactic radiotherapy will save lives and long term will also save money.The ban is short sighted as well as unjust.Give people in the funding area fighting chance,fund the technology.

]]> Mon, 1 Oct 2012 05:48:06 UTC 13859568 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #579] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13786114?utm_medium=rss Unbelievable that this campaign is having to be fought ! Do the people who make these decisions ever look at what is going on in European countries and the USA ? Why are cancer patients in the UK being deprived of this treatment ?

]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:33:38 UTC 13786114 Mr Lance Dyer [Signature #578] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13785489?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:40:37 UTC 13785489 Mr Clive Stone [Signature #577] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13749184?utm_medium=rss I have had this treatment 3 times now for brain mets and it works. I have had an extra 18 mths of good quality life. Oxon PCT funded twice but last time I had to find over £15k and yet have already paid via a life time of taxes.....

]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:14:13 UTC 13749184 Mrs Lydia Hocking [Signature #576] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12809550?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 May 2012 08:55:36 UTC 12809550 ms helen tempesr [Signature #575] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12674411?utm_medium=rss everyone is entitled to benefit from medical advancements

]]> Thu, 3 May 2012 12:33:03 UTC 12674411 Mr Ellis Marshall [Signature #574] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12661931?utm_medium=rss As a keen young physicist, with a passion for medical physics, I think this is the type of investment that needs to be made. Not only will it improve the treatment of patients but also to increase the efficiency of the NHS trusts using this new treatment

]]> Tue, 1 May 2012 03:37:55 UTC 12661931 Mrs Margaret Webb [Signature #573] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12582813?utm_medium=rss Cyberknife treatment for cancer should be available for all, and no one on this planet should have the authority to stop it being used, I am sure that if the people against the use of cyberknife had cancer and they were given the opportunitry for this treatment they would not say NO.

]]> Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:31:43 UTC 12582813 Dr James Arkell [Signature #572] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12453000?utm_medium=rss My mother has just been successfully treated with cyberknife for solitary bone met from lung cancer. It has so far achieved a further 12 months symptom free survival without need for additional debilitating chemo. I am NHS consultant and sad to say we relied on private insurance to access this. This is cutting edge medicine without numbers yet for RCTs but as Royal Marsden have access it should be used when appropriate. Mindless blanket bans by PCTs must be challenged.

]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:00:05 UTC 12453000 Mr Brian Withers [Signature #571] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12353946?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:41:34 UTC 12353946 Mrs Leigh Petchey [Signature #570] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12250041?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:34:08 UTC 12250041 donna withers [Signature #569] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12184757?utm_medium=rss All NHS Trusts in the UK please. We all work hard and pay our taxes and should expect for our family to be treated on the NHS when they need it. It's an absolute disgrace and I, my sisters and brother (youngest age 1) could lose our father wthout the treatment.

]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:02:01 UTC 12184757 Ms May Molteno [Signature #568] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12181223?utm_medium=rss Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:50:43 UTC 12181223 mr michael williams [Signature #567] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11993893?utm_medium=rss Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:34:16 UTC 11993893 Miss Kim Perkins [Signature #566] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11748596?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:22:22 UTC 11748596 Mrs Lisa Elliott [Signature #565] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11684795?utm_medium=rss Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:00:50 UTC 11684795 ms norma anderson [Signature #564] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11418503?utm_medium=rss need cyberknift in all nhs hospitals

]]> Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:34:28 UTC 11418503 mrs fae blaxill [Signature #563] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11416926?utm_medium=rss Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:34:28 UTC 11416926 ms jennifer andrews [Signature #562] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11201010?utm_medium=rss so america has been using the cyberknife for years for all sorts of cancers how disgraceful that someones life here in the uk is decided by the amount of money is available so people like myself will die when we could possibly live or at the least be given a chance and some hope im so angry how dare these pcts can play god!!!!

]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:41:00 UTC 11201010 Mrs Caherine Cavangh [Signature #561] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11021036?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Aug 2011 02:10:47 UTC 11021036 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #560] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10957952?utm_medium=rss I have just been told that my NHS trust in Fife will not fund or refer me to one of the hospitals that had cyberknife. I have two tiny mets from primary breast cancer in my liver. I am 45 and have had breast cancer diagnoses now three times. From the age of 35. I am appalled it comes down to cost in this country. I may have to pay to try to prolong my precious life which is not only precious to me but to my loved ones too.

]]> Sat, 6 Aug 2011 05:37:08 UTC 10957952 Miss Tracy Hopper [Signature #559] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10937106?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Aug 2011 02:21:01 UTC 10937106 mrs Lynne Browne [Signature #558] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10851477?utm_medium=rss Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:54:41 UTC 10851477 Mrs Nichola Wilmore [Signature #557] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10811177?utm_medium=rss Wed, 6 Jul 2011 06:13:59 UTC 10811177 ms amanda richards [Signature #556] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10695769?utm_medium=rss everyone should have the right to this technology if they should need it

]]> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:06:59 UTC 10695769 Jen Willingham [Signature #555] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10597393?utm_medium=rss Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:14:00 UTC 10597393 chris burns [Signature #554] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10581054?utm_medium=rss Mon, 30 May 2011 04:23:20 UTC 10581054 Cllr. Arnold Woolley [Signature #553] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10509841?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 May 2011 01:38:10 UTC 10509841 Ms Pat Brogan [Signature #552] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10508398?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 May 2011 09:22:15 UTC 10508398 Anonymous [Signature #551] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10507291?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 May 2011 06:08:53 UTC 10507291 David Edwards [Signature #550] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10506892?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 May 2011 05:09:09 UTC 10506892 mrs andrea ashcroft [Signature #549] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10506856?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 May 2011 05:02:54 UTC 10506856 Mrs Elaine Hunt [Signature #548] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10504196?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 May 2011 04:46:04 UTC 10504196 Mr Robert Splaine [Signature #547] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10504072?utm_medium=rss Treatment for all not just those who can afford it.

]]> Fri, 20 May 2011 04:24:08 UTC 10504072 MRS KAREN HARRIS [Signature #546] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10500690?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 May 2011 08:05:04 UTC 10500690 Mrs Margaret Reynolds [Signature #545] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10499039?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 May 2011 04:08:04 UTC 10499039 Mrs Adele Wilkes [Signature #544] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10498881?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 May 2011 03:45:37 UTC 10498881 Mr Brett Edwards [Signature #543] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10488870?utm_medium=rss contact us www.cyberkym4cancer.org.uk

]]> Wed, 18 May 2011 02:34:41 UTC 10488870 Miss Caitlin Horsfield [Signature #542] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10459945?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 May 2011 11:40:33 UTC 10459945 Mr James Friollia [Signature #541] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10445048?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 May 2011 12:40:12 UTC 10445048 mrs Rita Treves [Signature #540] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10426516?utm_medium=rss Tue, 10 May 2011 01:57:15 UTC 10426516 mrs Linza Corp [Signature #539] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10425174?utm_medium=rss Mon, 9 May 2011 05:58:19 UTC 10425174 Mr Adrian Court [Signature #538] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10425038?utm_medium=rss Mon, 9 May 2011 05:30:03 UTC 10425038 Mrs Rachel George [Signature #537] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10424898?utm_medium=rss Life-saving treatment should not depend upon which part of the UK that you live in.

]]> Mon, 9 May 2011 05:06:34 UTC 10424898 miss jenny prince [Signature #536] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10424872?utm_medium=rss Mon, 9 May 2011 05:02:11 UTC 10424872 MRs Leigh Masek [Signature #535] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10424841?utm_medium=rss Mon, 9 May 2011 04:55:42 UTC 10424841 Mrs Lena Court [Signature #534] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10424764?utm_medium=rss I have had Gamma knife surgery (Cyberknife Stereotactic Radiotherapy) at the Gamma Knife Centre at St Barts Hospital In London, my PCT funded this and I never realised it wasn't funded by ALL PCT's. This is a disgrace! I recieved mine in February 2011 and I live in the Midlands. This treatment is life saving, the machines are available, why are they sat there not being used for what they are intended for.... saving lives???? Madness.

]]> Mon, 9 May 2011 04:43:55 UTC 10424764 mrs jan stone [Signature #533] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10401546?utm_medium=rss This is a breakthrough and painless treatment, the more it is used, the less it will cost. It should not be for the priviledged few. If PCT's dont think it works, then why buy the machines?

]]> Fri, 6 May 2011 09:00:56 UTC 10401546 Lyn Rutherford [Signature #532] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10397933?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 May 2011 05:55:41 UTC 10397933 Rhia Norman [Signature #531] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10374618?utm_medium=rss Tue, 3 May 2011 11:52:57 UTC 10374618 Mrs Julie Jeffery [Signature #530] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10330659?utm_medium=rss Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:35:12 UTC 10330659 Ms Barb Kelly [Signature #529] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10318190?utm_medium=rss all about the $$$...Wake Up

]]> Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:22:39 UTC 10318190 mrs shirley Poulton [Signature #528] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10318124?utm_medium=rss its disgusting funding for the cyberknife has been halted, it was claimed to be the first NHS cyberknife in u.k and was to be built this year, in Plymouth, its a devastating blow to people living with cancer. 1 in 3 will get some form of cancer including those who have halted the work, peeps seem to forget this!!!!

]]> Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:12:18 UTC 10318124 Mrs Brenda Burt [Signature #527] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10318053?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:02:38 UTC 10318053 mr james harvey [Signature #526] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10318028?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:57:51 UTC 10318028 miss ceri poulton [Signature #525] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10317824?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:27:13 UTC 10317824 Miss Anonymous [Signature #524] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10315797?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:49:22 UTC 10315797 Mr Andrew Farrington [Signature #523] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10228615?utm_medium=rss With this new technology available to save/extend lives, cost shouldn't come into it.

]]> Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:24:15 UTC 10228615 mrs janet may [Signature #522] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10226790?utm_medium=rss Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:14:30 UTC 10226790 Mrs Deborah Farrington [Signature #521] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10219380?utm_medium=rss I will need Cyberknife treatment to treat my liver lesion when chemotherapy has shrunk it. I am 52 - suffering from a rare type of neuroendocrine cancer that doesn't respond to traditional radiotherapy. I have paid taxes all my life to have to struggle to get decent NHS care. I am disgusted.

]]> Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:08:41 UTC 10219380 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #520] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10216047?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:20:13 UTC 10216047 Mr Roger White [Signature #519] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10174545?utm_medium=rss No one should ever have to sign a petition for something like this.Thank god we are not being treated by the NHS anymore.

]]> Wed, 6 Apr 2011 06:01:44 UTC 10174545 Mrs Pamela Rogers [Signature #518] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10155478?utm_medium=rss I have just completed a 3wks period of Radiotherapy for breast cancer....I am concerned about the detrimental effects on my body in the longterm....so anything that may eliminate or lessen these effects is surely worth pursuing for the overall wellbeing of the patient...I have aslo agreed to do 'the race for life'....the huge amounts of money raised by this event, should be used for these causes and anything that will make a difference to the treatments available at this time, and in the future

]]> Mon, 4 Apr 2011 10:42:27 UTC 10155478 Miss Anna Wallace [Signature #517] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10154953?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:29:24 UTC 10154953 Mrs Carol Mason [Signature #516] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10153745?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Apr 2011 06:46:31 UTC 10153745 Ms Wendy Jones [Signature #515] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10150269?utm_medium=rss Equality for all areas of UK where cyberknife can truly help people with no other choice.
Please help people faced with terminal cancer have the opportunity to discuss ALL options and know it will be a similar choice for all patients wherever they reside...
Cyberknife really does improve some people's life expectancy!

Please please do listen to our request.

]]> Sun, 3 Apr 2011 06:05:08 UTC 10150269 Ms Elizabeth Straine [Signature #514] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10150006?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Apr 2011 05:14:01 UTC 10150006 gillian read [Signature #513] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10149952?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Apr 2011 05:05:06 UTC 10149952 Mr Michael Van den Bossche [Signature #512] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10149750?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Apr 2011 04:29:40 UTC 10149750 ms yvonne milligan [Signature #511] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10149736?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Apr 2011 04:27:50 UTC 10149736 Ms Carly Rose [Signature #510] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10149314?utm_medium=rss I am living with a diagnosis of breast cancer; if I am unfortunate enough to develop secondaries I want treatments like this to be made available on clinical grounds, not on a 'post code lottery'.

]]> Sun, 3 Apr 2011 03:24:06 UTC 10149314 Mrs Eithne Fowler [Signature #509] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10149064?utm_medium=rss This treatment can not only extend life but also cure some cancer conditions. There should be restrictions for life changing treatment.

]]> Sun, 3 Apr 2011 02:50:48 UTC 10149064 mr Edwin Wright [Signature #508] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10148322?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Apr 2011 01:14:33 UTC 10148322 mrs dawne gascoigne [Signature #507] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10148186?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Apr 2011 12:54:39 UTC 10148186 Maggie Lavery [Signature #506] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10148019?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Apr 2011 12:29:27 UTC 10148019