Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 20723
Prostate Cancer: Screening
Tabled: 17 December 2024
Answered: 6 January 2025
Named DayQuestion
Luke Murphy
Labour — Basingstoke
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that men with risk factors for prostate cancer are encouraged to receive regular prostate-specific antigen tests.
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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