Written answers

Thursday, 28 January 2016

Department of Health

Cancer Screening Programmes

Photo of Billy KelleherBilly Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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238. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 19 January 2016 (details supplied), the number of the 500 women in the 65 to 69 age cohort who were screened in 2015, who were aged 69. [3480/16]

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The BreastCheck extension began in Quarter 4 of 2015. The first cohort of 1,000 women involved those aged 65 being invited for a repeat mammogram. Over 640 of these women aged 65 were screened. The process will continue with women being invited for routine screening every two years until they are 69 years of age.

Thus none of the women in the 65 to 69 age cohort who were screened in 2015 were aged 69.

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