HC Deb 11 March 1999 vol 327 cc371-2W
Mr. Stinchcombe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what advice he has received from the Government's medical advisers on the probable impact of extending the routine call/recall element of the breast screening programme to women aged 65 to 69 years on(a) breast cancer detection rates and (b) breast cancer mortality rates. [75526]

Mr. Hutton

Interim results from one of the three pilot studies to test the feasibility of extending routine call/recall for breast screening to women aged 65 to 69 years showed breast cancer detection rates of 8 per thousand in women aged 65–67 and 17.4 per thousand in women aged 68 to 69. These results were published in theBritish

Mr. Hutton

The figures requested are routinely placed in the Library every quarter. Copies of the latest figures have been placed in the Library today.