Rejected petition Change the age of smear testing for women to age 20 not 25.

It should be allowed for women aged 20 and above to have a cervical smear test, as cervical cancer numbers are growing rapidly in younger women. There is very little education around this especially for teenage girls.

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By the government lowering the age, this will prepare women early on and hopefully stop the number increasing in women having this dreadful disease. Help us eradicate this disease before it’s too late. Some women by the age of 25-29 it’s already too late.

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You might like to sign the following petitions which call for a similar action:

Offer the smear test to over-16s
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/574513

Offer free cervical screening test once a year to women age 25 to 60
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/583601

Make Cervical Screening available to everyone from the age of 21
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/580043

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Date submitted 21 May 2021
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