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Pancreatic Cancer: Diagnosis and Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) raise awareness of the symptoms and (b) reduce the number of misdiagnoses of pancreatic cancer.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 11 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 16 Dec 2024
Answer: 17 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) raise awareness of the symptoms and (b) reduce the number of misdiagnoses of pancreatic cancer.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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17 Dec 2024
Answer published
NHS England is already taking steps to deliver a range of interventions to improve awareness of pancreatic cancer symptoms. NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and address barriers to acting on them, to enc...

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