Create a National Screening Program for Prostate Cancer

Rejected 9 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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: Fund routine prostate cancer screening tests for all men over 40

Timeline

23 Aug 2023	Petition opened for signatures
25 Aug 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 9

Status Rejected

Rejected 25 Aug 2023

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