Submitted by Nicola Brooks on Tuesday 7th November 2023
Published on Tuesday 21st November 2023
Current status: Open
Open until: Tuesday 21st May 2024
Current Signatures: 33
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Fund routine breast cancer screening for people of all ages
The evidence that people under the age of 50 (the current screening age) are being diagnosed with breast cancer is still an issue.
People of any age can get breast cancer, so why is screening not offered to anyone that has or is developing breasts?
Breast Cancer Now has said that:
8 out of 10 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women aged 50 and over.
1 in 4 of cases are diagnosed in women aged 75 and over.
Just over 10,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer under the age of 50 every year in the UK. Of these, around 7,600 women will be in their 40s.
Around 2,400 women in the UK are diagnosed aged 39 or under, or just 4% of all cases.
Breast cancer in men is rare with just 400 new cases in the UK each year, compared to around 55,000 new cases in women.
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