Cancer Strategy for England

Ian Sollom Excerpts
Thursday 31st October 2024

(4 days, 18 hours ago)

Westminster Hall
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Ian Sollom Portrait Ian Sollom (St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire) (LD)
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I thank my hon. Friend for securing this debate. The statistics he has shared are truly shocking. I want to draw attention to the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer, which several of my constituents have raised with me. They have heartbreaking stories of losing loved ones from a position of diagnosis at stage 4. Does my hon. Friend agree that those statistics highlight the need for a cancer strategy in the UK in order to up early diagnoses and drive forward research?

Clive Betts Portrait Mr Clive Betts (in the Chair)
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Order. I remind Members that interventions are supposed to be brief and to the point, not a substitute for a speech.