Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 81935

Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 14 October 2025
Answered: 4 November 2025

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

LabourSlough

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the (a) development and (b) rollout of biomarker tests to support early detection of (i) pancreatic cancer and (ii) other less survivable cancers in p

Answer

Ashley Dalton
million NHS programme. This is funding more than 300 general practices (GPs) to identify pancreatic cancer early by screening high-risk patients over 60 years old with new diabetes diagnoses and unexplained weight loss. More than 80 GPs across England hav...

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