This petition was submitted during the 2019 to 2024 Parliament
Rejected petition Create a National Screening Program for Prostate Cancer
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As part of the over 50's NHS Health Check automatically include a PSA test for all men.
Over 52000 men are diagnoses and over 12000 die of prostate cancer a year, a large number of these deaths happen and the men see no symptoms. An automatic PSA test of men over the age of 50, although not the best answer will be a step in the right direction.
Looking at the numbers related to other National screening program, 3200 cervical cancer cases are found a year and 57000 breast cancer cases, it seems prostate cancer has been left behind and it's about time this is corrected.
Why was this petition rejected?
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The UK Government and Parliament are not directly responsible for the NHS Health Check, but we have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:
Fund routine prostate cancer screening tests for all men over 40: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/642176
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