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Rishi Sunak Says Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Used Flawed Data

Rishi Sunak Says Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Used Flawed Data

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Former prime minister Rishi Sunak has said the decision not to offer wider prostate cancer screening in the UK relied on a flawed model. Speaking in Parliament, Sunak said he had studied the numbers and believed treatment costs were wrong. The screening committee backed testing only for higher-risk men with BRCA2 gene variants. Ministers said men can still request a PSA test from their GP.

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