Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 14422
Prostate Cancer: Screening
Tabled: 14 November 2024
Answered: 20 November 2024
Question
Clive Jones
Liberal Democrat — Wokingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the national prostate cancer screening programme.
Answer
There is currently no national prostate cancer screening programme. This is because it is not recommended by the UK National Screening Committees (UK NSC) due to the inaccuracy of the current best test, called the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA). A PSA-ba...
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