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Prostate Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that men at highest risk of prostate cancer take part in screening trials.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
11 Dec 2025
Answer
11 Dec 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that men at highest risk of prostate cancer take part in screening trials.

  2. 11 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Government and Prostate Cancer UK (PCUK) have partnered together on the £42 million TRANSFORM screening trial to find the best way to screen men for prostate cancer, to find it before it becomes advanced and harder to treat. PCUK is leading the develo...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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