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Pancreatic Cancer: Diagnosis

Commons · Question 46625 · Tabled 17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 30 Apr 2025

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Asked by Gregory Stafford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made on research into a breath test to enable early detection of Pancreatic Cancer.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 30 Apr 2025

The PANACEA study will recruit 8,000 patients across 40 sites by September 2026 to evaluate breath test performance and is expected to complete in March 2027. This is one strand of the Office for Life Sciences’ Cancer Healthcare Goals Programme, which sup...