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Prostate Cancer: Screening

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL2187, tabled on 5 September 2022

Question

Lord Taylor of Warwick
Non-affiliated
Life peer
Lords

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce an NHS national screening programme for prostate cancer.

Answer

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
Conservative
Life peer
Lords

Answered on

26 September 2022

There are currently no plans to do so. However, the UK National Screening Committee is due to review the evidence for prostate cancer screening in 2023.

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