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Prostate Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve early detection of prostate cancer through screening.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
4 Sept 2024
Answer
9 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve early detection of prostate cancer through screening.

  2. 4 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Sept 2024

    Answer published

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

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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