HC Deb 25 November 1981 vol 13 c407W
Dr. Roger Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will speed up his Department's research into breast cancer monitoring with a view to reporting substantially earlier than the planned date of 1986.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

The breast cancer screening research programme has been designed on the shortest time scale possible to achieve a reliable result, and it is unlikely that any valid conclusions could be drawn from the trials before 1986.