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Allow under 25's to have a smear test done to help prevent cervical cancer.

Submitted on Thursday 28th January 2016

Rejected on Friday 29th January 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Allow under 25's to have a smear test done to help prevent cervical cancer.

Petition Details

I have all the symptom's that could be a sign of cervical cancer but due to me being under the age of 25 my GP said I am not entitled to have a smear test done. Cervical cancer is caused by HPV Human Papillomavirus this a virus that is caused by sexual contact with a man.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

We have several petitions calling for specific changes to the age for smear tests. You may want to sign whichever of these you agree with:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/106617
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/106855
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/116257
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/109073

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