Rejected petition Lower the age that routine breast screening can begin from 50 to 40.

Please give serious consideration to lowering the age that routine breast screening is offered from 50 to 40.

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Currently in the UK there are approximately 10,000 women under the age of 50 diagnosed with breast cancer each year (source breast cancer.org) For many of these women diagnoses comes too late for treatment to be effective, leaving families devastated.
Not only would lowering the age from 50 to 40 see many more women diagnosed early and successfully treated, but this change would also help send out the message that women, and men, are at risk of breast cancer much younger than 50, and therefore promoting breast awareness from an earlier age.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Decisions relating to the timing and necessity of breast screening are a clinical matter for the NHS, not the UK Government or Parliament.

You might want to sign this petition which calls for a related action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/596421

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Date submitted 31 October 2021
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