Oral Cancer: Death
Commons · Question 86717 · Tabled 30 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Ruth Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of (a) trends in the number of deaths from mouth cancer over the past ten years and (b) the potential role of late diagnosis in these trends.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 21 Nov 2025
We know that more needs to be done to improve outcomes for patients with mouth cancer. To support earlier and faster cancer diagnosis, we are now delivering additional checks, tests, and scans at 170 community diagnostic centres. As the first step to ensu...