Key legal question
Whether compulsory health insurance had to cover the German SIRT, including surgery and follow-up care.
Extracted holding
The treatment was not a covered compulsory-health-insurance benefit, because SIRT was not scientifically established for pancreatic cancer with liver metastases and the operation was not shown to be necessary as a covered treatment.
Extracted reasoning
The court relied on the statutory criteria of effectiveness, appropriateness and economic efficiency. SIRT was not listed as a covered or new/controversial benefit for this indication, and retrospective success in the individual case could not replace general scientific proof.