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Prostate Cancer: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase research into the causes of prostate cancer in men of sub-Saharan African ancestry.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
31 Mar 2025
Answer
7 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase research into the causes of prostate cancer in men of sub-Saharan African ancestry.

  2. 31 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The Department funded National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funds research and research infrastructure, which supports patients and the public to participate in high-quality research, including clinical research on prostate cancer. NIHR r...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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