Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 73091

Blood Cancer: Diagnosis

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 29 September 2025

Question

Sarah Bool

ConservativeSouth Northamptonshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of developing a proxy measure for early diagnosis in blood cancer, in the absence of staging information.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Department continues to support the National Health Service to diagnose and treat cancer as early and fast as possible. There have been improvements in the prognosis of blood cancer patients, with patients now living twice as long. However, we recogni...

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