Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 12577

Prostate Cancer: Blood Tests

Tabled: 4 November 2024

Answered: 11 November 2024

Named Day

Question

Dr Neil Hudson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to encourage GPs to proactively discuss (a) prostate cancer risk and (b) the option to have a prostate-specific antigen test with (i) Black men aged 45 and over and (ii) men

Answer

The Prostate Cancer Risk Management Programme (PCRMP) provides general practitioners (GPs) with information and guidance to counsel men who have no symptoms, but who wish to have a Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test. It highlights the potential benefits...

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