Question follow-through · 72678
Blood Cancer: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent engagement he has had with the blood cancer community on the significance of implementing a proxy measure for early diagnosis in blood cancer.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 29 Sept 2025 · 31 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent engagement he has had with the blood cancer community on the significance of implementing a proxy measure for early diagnosis in blood cancer.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Department continues to support the National Health Service to diagnose and treat cancer as early and fast as possible. There have been improvements in the prognosis of blood cancer patients, with patients now living twice as long. However, we recogni...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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