Skin Cancer: Screening

(asked on 17th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce new tests for detecting melanoma skin cancer in the NHS.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 25th January 2017

There are no plans to introduce new tests for detecting melanoma skin cancer in the National Health Service, the current method for diagnosis is biopsy.

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