Ovarian Cancer: Screening

(asked on 27th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the inclusion of information on ovarian cancer in letters to patients containing the results of recent cervical and breast screening.


Answered by
 Portrait
David Mowat
This question was answered on 2nd March 2017

The Department’s Policy Research Unit on Cancer Awareness Screening and Early Diagnosis has undertaken a qualitative research study in which members of the public were given access to available leaflets on ovarian cancer awareness and then participated in six focus groups and interviews on their acceptability and how they would be received and understood if included within the all clear screening results letter from the breast or cervical screening programme. This study is now complete and is being prepared for peer-reviewed publication. A further qualitative research study with professionals will commence when approval is received from the Health Research Authority.

A second project is a synthesis of published incidence, mortality, stage distribution and stage-specific survival rates for ovarian cancer by age. The aim of this project is to identify which age group would be most likely to benefit from such an intervention, in terms of risk of ovarian cancer and room for improvement in stage at diagnosis. This project is also complete and is being prepared for peer-reviewed publication.

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