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Cancer: Statistics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the 2013 mandate to accurately collect and collate data on cancer recurrence is being fully implemented.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
1 Jul 2025
Target answer date
4 Jul 2025
Answer
8 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the 2013 mandate to accurately collect and collate data on cancer recurrence is being fully implemented.

  2. 4 Jul 2025

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  3. 8 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Department is committed to ensuring that data on cancer is complete and of sufficiently high quality. The National Disease Registration Service (NDRS) collects recurrence data for non-primary cancers via data submissions as part of the Cancer Outcomes...

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