Prostate Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 3688 · Tabled 2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 9 Sep 2024
Question
Asked by Mark Pritchard
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve early detection of prostate cancer through screening.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 9 Sep 2024
Screening for prostate cancer is currently not recommended by the UK National Screening Committees (UK NSC). This is because of the inaccuracy of the current best test Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA). A PSA-based screening programme could harm men as some...