Question follow-through · 58627

Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase awareness of the (a) symptoms and (b) treatment of prostate cancer among men.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
10 Jun 2025
Target answer date
12 Jun 2025
Answer
23 Jun 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 10 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase awareness of the (a) symptoms and (b) treatment of prostate cancer among men.

  2. 12 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 23 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    NHS England run Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and address the barriers to acting on them, to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns focus on a range of sy...

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