Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 32884
Brain: Tumours
Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 5 March 2025
Question
Charlie Maynard
Liberal Democrat — Witney
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish monthly statistics on (a) the number of brain tumour patients who have received whole genome sequencing of their tumour and (b) the number of people diagnosed with brain tumours
Answer
Ashley DaltonThe Department does not hold publishable data to identify where whole genome sequencing has taken place and cannot identify tumours by histological type. NHS England holds data that provides a count of hospital activity only, not by the number of patients...
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