Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 78970

Cancer

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Patrick Hurley

LabourSouthport

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of establishing a national multi-cancer case-finding initiative to identify people at higher risk of (a) pancreatic and (b) other les

Answer

Ashley Dalton
NHS England is working on case-finding approaches for less survivable cancers, where the evidence suggests this is appropriate. This includes a public-facing Family History Checker, which enables people and their families affected by pancreatic cancer to ...

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