Rejected petition Change the legal age for screening from 25 to 20

Please make it able to get younger people there screening done ,cancer doesn’t care about age and Neither should we!

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I want this law changed because age doesn’t matter when it comes to cancer catching it Early before it can progress is key, saving Women’s lives .women having to wait until there 25 isn’t fair girls all over the country could be suffering and might still have another 3 years to wait please help do something about this

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The age at which women are offered cervical screening is not set out in law, but we have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

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

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Date submitted 23 August 2021
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