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Prostate Cancer: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to increase awareness of the risk factors associated with prostate cancer.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 8 May 2025
Target answer date: 12 May 2025
Answer: 13 May 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to increase awareness of the risk factors associated with prostate cancer.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
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13 May 2025
Answer published
Currently, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) does not recommend a national prostate cancer screening programme due to the limitations of the current best test, the Prostate Specific Antigen test, which may lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatmen...

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