Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 97004

Prostate Cancer

Tabled: 3 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026

Question

Manuela Perteghella

Liberal DemocratStratford-on-Avon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to utilise electronic health records indicating familial genetic predisposition to improve risk identification for men at increased risk of prostate cancer.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The NHS Retrospective Genetic Testing Programme is using electronic health records to identify people who have had a cancer diagnosis, between 2008 and 2018, making them eligible for inherited breast and ovarian cancer genetic testing on R208/R207 panels ...

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