Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 20722

Prostate Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 17 December 2024

Answered: 6 January 2025

Named Day

Question

Luke Murphy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a national prostate-specific antigen screening programme for prostate cancer in the UK.

Answer

Screening for prostate cancer is currently not recommended by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC). This is because of the inaccuracy of the current best test, called the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA). A PSA-based screening programme could harm ...

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