Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 37460

Brain: Tumours

Tabled: 11 March 2025
Answered: 24 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Jonathan Davies

LabourMid Derbyshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of including nanopore sequencing-based brain tumour methylome classification in the National Genomic Test Directory.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Department funded the Cancer 2.0 initiative in 2021, delivered by Genomics England in close partnership with NHS England. The three-year programme demonstrated that nanopore sequencing-based brain tumour classification demonstrates significant promise...

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