Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 27039

Blood Cancer: Diagnosis

Tabled: 28 January 2025
Answered: 3 February 2025

Question

Clive Jones

Liberal DemocratWokingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England on the collection of patient data which indicates the level of disease progression of blood cancers at the point of diagnosis.

Answer

Unfortunately, not all blood cancers can be staged. Most types of leukaemia are not staged in the same way as cancers that form tumours, because they have typically spread through the body via the blood by the time they are found.However, all cases of can...

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