Breast Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 60858 · Tabled 18 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the age at which breast screening begins to 30.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 26 Jun 2025
Women under the age of 50 years old are not routinely screened for breast cancer due to the lower risk of women under this age developing breast cancer, and the fact that women under 50 years old tend to have denser breasts. The denseness of breast tissue...