Cancer: Mortality Rates

(asked on 6th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2023 to Question 125401 on Cancer: Mortality Rates, if he will make it his policy to ensure that consideration of NHS (a) priorities and (b) targets for cancer treatment includes an assessment of the potential impact of (i) late cancer diagnosis and (ii) delayed cancer treatment on trends in the prevalence of cancer mortality.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 13th February 2023

Stage of cancer at diagnosis is one of the key factors influencing a person’s chances of surviving cancer. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out an ambition to see 75% of cancers diagnosed at stage one or two by 2028, up from around 55% in 2018/19.

Late cancer diagnoses, delayed cancer treatment and the impact these have on cancer mortality inform NHS England’s delivery targets.

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