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Baroness in Waiting/Government Whip (Baroness Blake of Leeds) (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 2 June 2026

Debate

Prostate Cancer Screening

Contribution

My Lords, the Government have today accepted the UK National Screening Committee’s evidence-based recommendation to offer prostate cancer screening every two years to men between the ages of 45 and 61 with a BRCA2 gene variant and a family history of breast, ovarian, pancreatic or prostate cancer. Population-wide screening was shown to do more harm than good. We will keep this decision under review and work with organisations to fill the evidence gaps for high-risk groups.

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