United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 106959
Breast Cancer: Screening
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21 October 2020
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5 November 2020 · Answer
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5 November 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of upright MRI scanners in encouraging more women to undergo breast cancer scans.
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21 October 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of upright MRI scanners in encouraging more women to undergo breast cancer scans.
Source: Commons
5 November 2020
Answer
The United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has not reviewed the evidence to offer upright MRI scanners as a primary screen test in the National Health Service Breast Screening Programme (NHS BSP).A change to the primary screen test would be ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-10-21/106959
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1245549
- uk · wq-1245549 · source updated 5 November 2020