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Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the upcoming National Cancer Plan addresses challenges relating to delayed diagnosis for unstageable cancers.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
5 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the upcoming National Cancer Plan addresses challenges relating to delayed diagnosis for unstageable cancers.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 5 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer, including blood cancers such as myeloma, as well as other unstageable cancers, as early and quickly as possible, and to treat it faster, in order to improve out...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Leukaemia: Diagnosis

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