Bowel Cancer: Diagnosis
Commons · Question 20164 · Tabled 16 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by Sharon Hodgson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of cases of late diagnoses of bowel cancer in emergency NHS settings; and what steps he is taking to reduce this number.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 19 Dec 2024
No recent estimate has been made. Data is only available up to 2020 from the National Disease Registration Service. The data for the year 2020 highlights that 24.4% of bowel cancer patients were diagnosed through emergency presentation.It is a priority fo...