Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 81677

Cancer: Diagnosis

Tabled: 13 October 2025

Answered: 21 October 2025

Question

Josh Fenton-Glynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the average time between the (a) onset of symptoms and (b) formal diagnosis for patients with (i) lung, (ii) pancreatic, (iii) liver, (iv) brain, (v) oesophageal and

Answer

Ashley Dalton

The Department is supporting the National Health Service to meet the Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS), for 75% of patients to be diagnosed or have cancer ruled out within 28 days of being referred urgently by their general practitioner (GP) for suspected c...

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