Written questions

Prostate Cancer: Screening

Commons · Question 41523 · Tabled 26 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 31 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Greg Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Prostate Cancer Research report, Socio-economic Impact of Prostate Cancer Screening, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies of the macroe

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 31 Mar 2025

The UK National Screening Committee currently does not recommend prostate cancer screening because the evidence suggests that it does more harm than good. The committee is currently reviewing the evidence for both population wide screening and targeted pr...