Local calls to lower the age for cancer screening. Cllr Sinead Flynn is calling on the Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, and the HSE to urgently lower the age thresholds for cancer screening in Ireland. Additionally to increase the frequency of those screenings.
In Ireland today, one in two people will get cancer in their lifetime.
As a result, Cllr Flynn is calling on the Minister and the HSE to bring BreastCheck and BowelScreen down to age 45, to begin CervicalCheck from age 23, and to review the screening intervals to make sure they reflect modern risk.
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She says these calls are about fairness, science and most of all, it's about saving lives.
Jodie Curran has been speaking with the local representative about this issue:
