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Rare Cancers: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the national cancer strategy will include commitments to improve outcomes for (a) acute myeloid leukaemia and (b) other rare and less common cancers.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
17 Apr 2025
Target answer date
23 Apr 2025
Answer
28 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the national cancer strategy will include commitments to improve outcomes for (a) acute myeloid leukaemia and (b) other rare and less common cancers.

  2. 23 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The National Cancer Plan will seek to improve the experience and outcomes for people with rarer and less common cancers, including acute myeloid leukaemia. The plan will include further details on how we will improve outcomes, as well as speeding up diagn...

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