Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 11:29 am on 29 November 2018.
Lord O'Shaughnessy
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
11:29,
29 November 2018
The noble Lord is quite right. We have seen incredible improvements in outcomes for some cancers, whereas others, pancreatic cancer among them, have just not seen improved survival rates. We need to do a lot more, and part of that is early diagnosis. I understand that while pancreatic cancer becomes symptomatic in the last six months of a person’s life, it can be in the body for up to 14 years, so making that early diagnosis and using new technology such as liquid biopsies will help us achieve that noble goal.