BOLTON MP David Crausby has welcomed the Government’s plans to extend breast cancer screening.
By 2012, all women aged between 47 and 73 will be eligible for tests, meaning an extra 200,000 women per year will be screened. The service is currently available to women aged between 50 and 70.
Mr Crausby, who represents Bolton North East, has tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons in support of the plan.
He said: “The number of women dying from breast cancer has fallen to its lowest level since records began.
“Improvements in chemotherapy, radiotherapy and screening have all contributed to this.”
Since the late 1980s, more than 19 million women have been screened and 117,000 cancer cases have been detected.
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