Lower the age that routine breast screening can begin from 50 to 40.

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

Please give serious consideration to lowering the age that routine breast screening is offered from 50 to 40.

Currently in the UK there are approximately 10,000 women under the age of 50 diagnosed with breast cancer each year (source breast cancer.org) For many of these women diagnoses comes too late for treatment to be effective, leaving families devastated.
Not only would lowering the age from 50 to 40 see many more women diagnosed early and successfully treated, but this change would also help send out the message that women, and men, are at risk of breast cancer much younger than 50, and therefore promoting breast awareness from an earlier age.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

Decisions relating to the timing and necessity of breast screening are a clinical matter for the NHS, not the UK Government or Parliament.

You might want to sign this petition which calls for a related action: Fund routine breast screenings from age 40

Timeline

31 Oct 2021	Petition opened for signatures
4 Nov 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 4 Nov 2021

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