Question follow-through · 20164
Bowel Cancer: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of cases of late diagnoses of bowel cancer in emergency NHS settings; and what steps he is taking to reduce this number.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of cases of late diagnoses of bowel cancer in emergency NHS settings; and what steps he is taking to reduce this number.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
No recent estimate has been made. Data is only available up to 2020 from the National Disease Registration Service. The data for the year 2020 highlights that 24.4% of bowel cancer patients were diagnosed through emergency presentation.It is a priority fo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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