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Cancer: Health Services

Commons · Question 6680 · Tabled 4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 14 Oct 2024

Question

Asked by Tom Gordon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of developing a specific action plan for (a) cancers of the (i) brain, (ii) liver, (iii) lung, (iv) stomach, (v) oesophagus and (vi) pancre

Answer

Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 14 Oct 2024

The Government has not made an assessment of the potential merits of an action plan for less survivable cancers individually or as a group, or had specific discussions with international counterparts on their approach to less survivable cancers.Lord Darzi...