PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Bowel Cancer: Screening (13 December 2017)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has plans to reduce the screening age for bowel cancer to 50 years old.
Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)
Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)
Answer
Following the Ministerial approval of the United Kingdom National Screening Committee’s (UK NSC’s) recommendation to introduce Faecal Immunochemical Testing as the primary screen test in the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, the UK NSC commissioned the Sheffield School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) to use existing evidence and modelling techniques to describe options for optimising bowel cancer screening. This includes at different cut off levels for the test and at various age ranges.
The UK NSC will continue to work with ScHARR, and stakeholders, and will make a final recommendation in 2018.
Answered by:
Steve Brine (Conservative)
21 December 2017
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