Question follow-through · 12844
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to introduce prostate cancer testing for men at earlier ages than is currently available.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to introduce prostate cancer testing for men at earlier ages than is currently available.
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 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, called the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA). A PSA-based screening programme could harm...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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