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Question follow-through · 90175

Cancer: Medical Treatments and Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of limited fresh-freezing capacity on patients’ access to emerging cancer (a) testing and (b) treatments.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
17 Nov 2025
Answer
5 Feb 2026 · 85 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of limited fresh-freezing capacity on patients’ access to emerging cancer (a) testing and (b) treatments.

  2. 17 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    Fresh-freezing, also referred to as snap-freezing, is a standard technique used by pathology networks to preserve tissue architecture without chemical fixatives, allowing for subsequent molecular or histological analysis, typically supporting research or ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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