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Breast Cancer: Diagnosis and Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve (a) diagnosis times and (b) treatment of invasive lobular breast cancer.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 25 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 27 Nov 2024
Answer: 2 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve (a) diagnosis times and (b) treatment of invasive lobular breast cancer.
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
We will improve cancer survival rates and hit all National Health Service cancer waiting time targets so no patient waits longer than they should.Improving early diagnosis of cancer, including breast cancer, is a priority for the Government. There are mul...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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