PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(16 December 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase levels of awareness on the (a) signs and (b) symptoms of cancer among young people and their families.

Asked by:
Clive Jones (Liberal Democrat)

We are committed to getting the National Health Service catching cancer on time, diagnosing it earlier, and treating it faster, so that more patients survive this horrible set of diseases. This includes in relation to children and young people.

NHS England and other NHS organisations, nationally and locally, publish information on the signs and symptoms of many different types of cancer, including those that are most common in children. Further information on cancer signs and symptoms is available on the NHS.UK website.

We are committed to improving outcomes for children and young people with cancer, and we are considering the next steps to take forward work in this area through the relaunch of Children and Young People Cancer Taskforce.

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