Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 20739
Breast Cancer: Screening
Tabled: 17 December 2024
Answered: 20 December 2024
Question
Sam Carling
Labour — North West Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of lowering the minimum age of mammograms for breast cancer checks.
Answer
We currently do not screen those younger than 50 years old for breast cancer due to the lower risk of women under this age developing breast cancer, and the fact that women below 50 years old tend to have denser breast tissue, which reduces the ability of...
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