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Sunak backs prostate cancer screening

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FORMER prime minister Rishi Sunak has been named an ambassador for Prostate Cancer Research, supporting its campaign for a national screening programme for men at high risk of the disease. The announcement follows Sunak’s visit to Oxford BioDynamics last week, where he learned about the EpiSwitch PSE blood test, which can detect prostate cancer with 94 per cent accuracy. This is seen as a major improvement over the commonly used PSA test. Sunak …

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Rishi Sunak calls for prostate cancer screening programme - Hambleton Today

Rishi Sunak has called for a national screening programme to tackle prostate cancer. The Richmond and Northallerton MP raised the urgent need for the measure at this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions. He said: “Prostate cancer is now our country’s most common cancer, and yet there is no national screening programme. We made progress towards this in government, but there is more to do.” He emphasised the importance of early detection, noting that…

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