Cancer: Coronavirus

(asked on 29th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Government's focus on responding to the covid-19 outbreak on trends in the number of early cancers being (a) diagnosed and (b) missed since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 7th July 2021

We have not made a specific assessment as the data on rates of diagnoses in this period is not yet available.

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