Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 81934

Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 14 October 2025
Answered: 28 October 2025

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

LabourSlough

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a national multi-cancer case finding programme to identify individuals at high risk of (a) pancreatic cancer and (b) all other can

Answer

Ashley Dalton
NHS England is developing case-finding approaches for less survivable cancers where the evidence supports this, including pancreatic cancer.This work includes the development of a public-facing Family History Checker in partnership with Pancreatic Cancer ...

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