Throat Cancer: Diagnosis

(asked on 4th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the saliva hpv test for throat cancer will be available on the NHS.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 27th November 2020

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, who developed the Cytosponge test, are currently putting the test through an economic evaluation and hope that it will be rolled out within general practitioner practices within three to five years.

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