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Lower the age for breast screening

Submitted on Wednesday 20th September 2023

Rejected on Thursday 21st September 2023

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Lower the age for breast screening

Petition Details

The current age of women being offered breast screening to detect breast cancer is 50. However women in their 30’s and 40’s and even sadly as young as in their 20’s are being diagnosed with breast cancer which they have found themselves.

Additional Information

Whilst I sit every week for treatment amongst my fellow cancer patients it shocks me how young the breast cancer patients are. I am on support groups on social media and again it shocks me how young the breast cancer patients are. This has made me question why mammograms are only offered to women over 50 years old???? We know that triple negative breast cancer is being found in younger women and is an aggressive cancer. If it is detected early it can be treated!


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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.

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You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for a similar action:

Fund routine breast cancer screening from the age of 25:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/643712

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