Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 25115

Blood Cancer

Tabled: 20 January 2025
Answered: 27 January 2025

Question

Paul Davies

LabourColne Valley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) introducing a proxy staging measure for non-stageable blood cancers and (b) applying a national target to (i) measu

Answer

There are no current plans to introduce a specific proxy staging measure or a corresponding national target to support the earlier diagnosis of blood cancers. It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer, i...

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