Prostate Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 26803 · Tabled 28 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 30 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Mark Pritchard
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will introduce age-related universal testing for prostate cancer.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 30 Jan 2025
Screening for prostate cancer is currently not recommended in the United Kingdom, due to the inaccuracy of the current best test, the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test.A UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) review, looking at whether to offer scree...