Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 50894
Prostate Cancer: Screening
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 has made an assessment of the potential merits of prostate cancer screening for high risk groups.
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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