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Lord Beamish (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 2 June 2026

Debate

Prostate Cancer Screening

Contribution

My Lords, the problem with prostate cancer is that most men do not have symptoms; it was certainly like that in my case. The Minister said that wide screening would lead to worsening outcomes, but I am sorry: being alive is far better than the alternative. We will have a problem: in affluent communities, men can and will ask their GPs for tests, but that will not happen in some poorer communities. What has been suggested today is continued health inequality, where men in poorer communities will not ask for that test and will continue to die.

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