Brain: Tumours
Commons · Question 32884 · Tabled 21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Charlie Maynard
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish monthly statistics on (a) the number of brain tumour patients who have received whole genome sequencing of their tumour and (b) the number of people diagnosed with brain tumours
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 5 Mar 2025
The Department does not hold publishable data to identify where whole genome sequencing has taken place and cannot identify tumours by histological type. NHS England holds data that provides a count of hospital activity only, not by the number of patients...