United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 8772
Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis
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14 October 2024
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17 October 2024 · Answer
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17 October 2024
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) encourage screening for and (b) increase the rate of early diagnosis of prostate cancer.
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14 October 2024
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) encourage screening for and (b) increase the rate of early diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Source: Commons
17 October 2024
Answer
Screening for prostate cancer is currently not recommended by the UK National Screening Committees (UK NSC). This is because of the inaccuracy of the current best test Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA). A PSA-based screening programme could harm men as some...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-10-14/8772
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1733813
- uk · wq-1733813 · source updated 17 October 2024