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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Claudia Savage

Government ‘looking carefully’ at launching routine prostate cancer screening

Health minister Andrew Gwynne said the Government was looking at introducing routine screening for prostate cancer as technology improves (Jeff Moore/PA) - (PA Archive)

The Government is “looking carefully” at introducing routine screening for prostate cancer as developments in technology are making diagnosis more effective, a health minister has said.

Andrew Gwynne also pledged to “make the United Kingdom a world leader in cancer survival” and urged women to become familiar with the symptoms of ovarian cancer, telling MPs about his mother’s late diagnosis of the disease.

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