| Heading: |
Prostate Cancer: Screening |
| Question ID: |
1759320 |
| UIN: |
26803 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1576 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mark Pritchard
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| Asking Member handle: |
MPritchardMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@MPritchardMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will introduce age-related universal testing for prostate cancer. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-30 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1506 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Answering Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Answer text: |
Screening for prostate cancer is currently not recommended in the United Kingdom, due to the inaccuracy of the current best test, the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test.A UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) review, looking at whether to offer scree... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |