Written questions

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...