Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make a comparative assessment of survival rates of prostate cancer across England.

Prostate cancer has a one-year survival of 96% and five-year survival of 88%. For those diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer one-year survival is 100%; however, those diagnosed at stage 4 have one-year survival of 88%. Data is available at the following link:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/cancersurvivalinengland/adultstageatdiagnosisandchildhoodpatientsfollowedupto2016

Across Cancer Alliances, one-year survival ranges from 94.7% to 96.9%; with five-year survival ranging from 83.4% to 90.5%. Variation in uptake of prostate-specific antigen testing is likely to be the cause of much of the observed geographical variation. Further information is available at the following link:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/geographicpatternsofcancersurvivalinengland/adultsdiagnosed2011to2015andfollowedupto2016