Douglas McAllister

Douglas McAllister

Labour — West Dunbartonshire

Speaking in the House of Commons on 5 February 2026

Debate

National Cancer Plan

Contribution

I congratulate the Minister on this excellent and ambitious plan. If we are to achieve its targets, improvements need to be made on delivering earlier and better diagnosis, particularly for cancers with extremely low survival rates, such as acute myeloid leukaemia, which has a five-year survival rate of just 22%. In my West Dunbartonshire constituency, 46 people have lost their lives to leukaemia in the past five years. I have lived with leukaemia over the past 18 years. Can the Minister confirm that, as part of this plan, improvements will be made in the survival rate for acute myeloid leukaemia?

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