Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:47 pm on 21 June 2017.
Diolch, Llywydd. Cabinet Secretary, we all know that early detection of cancer is vital to patient survival, which is why screening programmes are so important. If bowel cancer is diagnosed at the earlier stage, more than nine in 10 people will be successfully treated. Screening should reduce the number of people who die from the disease, which kills around 1,000 people in Wales each year. Many people find the current test too complicated, which is why I congratulate you for introducing the simpler and more accurate faecal immunochemical test—or FIT. Cabinet Secretary, can you please provide an update on how the roll-out of the new test is progressing?