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Lord Patel (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 15 June 2026

Debate

Rare Cancers: Diagnosis and Treatment

Contribution

My Lords, we lead in genomic science and infrastructure by having established seven hubs for genomic testing. Despite this, we fall behind in testing for liquid biopsies of DNA and for circulating DNA, in histology testing, in molecular testing of cancer tissues and in testing for genetically inherited genes in families. All these are because of bottlenecks—not because the machines cannot do the tests. We need somebody to get a grip of the administrative backlogs that occur because we are failing on timelines for all these, which are government targets. Can the Minister answer on that?

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