Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of (a) metastatic and (b) primary breast cancers are first diagnosed during emergency presentation.
The latest available data shows that in 2017, 4% of primary breast cancers were diagnosed following emergency presentation. In total 60% of primary breast cancers were diagnosed following a general practitioner referral.
Data for non-primary/recurrent metastatic cancers is not available in the format requested.