Submitted on Wednesday 23rd August 2023
Rejected on Friday 25th August 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Create a National Screening Program for Prostate Cancer
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.
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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.
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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: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/642176
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