Written questions

Breast Cancer

Commons · Question 22310 · Tabled 28 Aug 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 7 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Juliet Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of publishing consistent data on (a) recurrence and (b) longer-term survival rates for secondary breast cancer.

Answer

Answered by James Frith, 7 Sep 2026

The National Cancer Plan for England, published in February this year, committed to define and count recurrent cancers, starting with breast cancer. The National Disease Registration Service is working towards publishing a baseline figure of metastatic br...