PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Breast Cancer: Screening (4 October 2019)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending provision of genetic testing to all people diagnosed with breast cancer.

Asked by:
Emma Reynolds (Labour)

Answer

The NHS Long Term Plan sets out the ambition to extend the use of molecular diagnostics and, over the next 10 years, to routinely offer genomic testing to all people with cancer for whom it would be of clinical benefit.


Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
8 October 2019

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