Blood Cancer

(asked on 2nd February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether diagnostic centres established as a result of the Cancer Strategy for England take specific account of blood cancer; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 8th February 2018

The wave two of the Accelerate, Coordination and Evaluation (ACE) programme is testing a new multi-disciplinary diagnostic centre approach to diagnosing patients with vague or unclear but concerning symptoms, often characteristic of hard to diagnose cancers like blood cancers. This approach aims to ensure that patients can receive a suite of tests, reducing the risk that patients receive multiple different referrals for the same problem. The ACE programme has established ten pilot Rapid Diagnostic Assessment Centres across five areas of the country.

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