Question follow-through · 8059
Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis and Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) increase access to and (b) improve prostate cancer (i) diagnosis and (ii) treatment, in the context of disparities in early detection rates across differe
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) increase access to and (b) improve prostate cancer (i) diagnosis and (ii) treatment, in the context of disparities in early detection rates across differe
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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14 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Department has invested £16 million in the TRANSFORM trial which seeks to find ways to diagnose prostate cancer as early as possible. This trial will compare the most promising tests to look for prostate cancer in men that do not have symptoms, and ai...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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