§ Mr. StinchcombeTo 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. HuttonInterim 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
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§ Mr. HuttonThe figures requested are routinely placed in the Library every quarter. Copies of the latest figures have been placed in the Library today.