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Prostate Cancer: Screening

Asked by Mr Calvin BaileyLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 10 November 2025UIN 87121

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the article entitled European Study of Prostate Cancer Screening - 23 Year Follow-up published in the New England Journal of Medicine on 29 October 2025; and if he will ensure that this research is considered as part of the UK National Screening Committee’s review of prostate cancer screening options.

Answered by Ashley Dalton

The article European Study of Prostate Cancer Screening – 23 Year Follow-up was published after the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) completed its formal modelling report as part of its evidence review into prostate cancer screening.

However, given that it is a peer-reviewed update to one of only two large-scale prostate cancer screening trials, the UK NSC Secretariat has checked the key results of this research against the UK NSC’s evidence review.

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