AQW 42714/11-15

Mr Tom Buchanan
Democratic Unionist Party
West Tyrone

Tabled Date: 23/02/2015
Answered On Date: 03/03/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety whether pancreatic cancer will be highlight in the new cancer awareness campaign.

Answer:

Pancreatic cancer is not one of the cancers to be highlighted in the Public Health Agency’s Be Cancer Aware public information campaign. This campaign was launched on 24 February 2015 and the first phase is focussing on the top three most prevalent cancers in Northern Ireland (lung, breast and bowel). Together these three cancers accounted for 55% of new cancers diagnosed in Northern Ireland in 2012 (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer).

It is envisaged that a later phase of the campaign will include other new tumour sites but the selection of these has yet to be determined.