Question follow-through · 59997
Cancer: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of trends in the level of late diagnosis of (a) blood cancers and (b) solid tumour cancers.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of trends in the level of late diagnosis of (a) blood cancers and (b) solid tumour cancers.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2025
Answer published
There are no current plans to introduce a specific proxy staging measure or a corresponding national target to support the earlier diagnosis of blood cancers. To tackle late diagnoses of blood cancers, the National Health Service is implementing non-speci...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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