Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 50893
Prostate Cancer: Blood Tests
Tabled: 8 May 2025
Answered: 13 May 2025
Question
Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Labour — Slough
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to increase awareness of the availability of a PSA blood test.
Answer
Ashley DaltonCurrently, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) does not recommend a national prostate cancer screening programme due to the limitations of the current best test, the Prostate Specific Antigen test, which may lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatmen...
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