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Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the cancer plan will contain measures to improve (a) pathology and (b) testing within the (a) overall cancer and (b) triple negative breast cancer pathway.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
13 Jan 2025
Answer
13 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 8 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the cancer plan will contain measures to improve (a) pathology and (b) testing within the (a) overall cancer and (b) triple negative breast cancer pathway.

  2. 13 Jan 2025

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  3. 13 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Government recognises that a cancer-specific approach is needed to meet the challenges in cancer care, and to improve outcomes for people living with different types of cancer including rare cancers, sub-types of cancer and triple-negative breast canc...

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