When people get pancreatic cancer, their body can’t digest food properly. This leaves them too poorly for treatment, with lower quality of life – and at risk of starvation.
Simple tablets called Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy (PERT) – also known as Creon, or Nutrizym – can help people to cope better with treatment and manage their symptoms.
But right now there are major shortages of PERT across the UK, affecting more than 61,000 people.
Find out more about the shortages
A proactive response is needed from the Government to end the shortages.
That’s why, on Wednesday 26 February, we held an emergency event in parliament to ask MPs for their support.
What happened at the event?
Thanks to 2,275 of our amazing supporters urged their MP to attend. 104 MPs attended joined our event. Thank you for standing with us to call on the Government to end the PERT shortages. Find out if your MP came along.
Our amazing volunteers Bryony, Claire, Michael, Terri and Rachel, spoke passionately to MPs about the impact that the PERT shortages are having on them and their families.
Bryony spoke to a packed room about her experiences of
MPs were keen to understand how the PERT shortages are impacting people with pancreatic cancer in their local constituencies. They wanted to know what next steps are needed to drive progress on this issue both in the short-term and in the long-term.
