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Repro Free: 30/09/2014
Penny McGowan from Kells Co Meath joined the Irish Cancer Society and cancer campaigners from across Ireland as they submit a petition to Government, calling on the Minister for Health to take action and include extending the breast cancer screening programme for women aged 65-69 in the HSE’s Services Plan for 2015. The Government said the extension of BreastCheck would take place during 2014 but then made a decision to defer it. At least eighty-seven lives are being lost to breast cancers every year due to the delay in screening the upper age group of women. Picture Andres Poveda

