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UIN 20164

Bowel Cancer: Diagnosis

answeredUnited Kingdom· UK Parliament· EN

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16 December 2024

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19 December 2024 · Answer

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19 December 2024

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of cases of late diagnoses of bowel cancer in emergency NHS settings; and what steps he is taking to reduce this number.

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  1. 16 December 2024

    Written question

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of cases of late diagnoses of bowel cancer in emergency NHS settings; and what steps he is taking to reduce this number.

    Source: Commons

  2. 19 December 2024

    Answer

    No recent estimate has been made. Data is only available up to 2020 from the National Disease Registration Service. The data for the year 2020 highlights that 24.4% of bowel cancer patients were diagnosed through emergency presentation.It is a priority fo...

    Source: Written answer

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