Cervical Cancer Screening Age Petition

There are currently 525 signatures for this petition:

1. Mary Cort Loughborough

   21/04/2011 at 11:49 am

   I would like to petition the Prime Minister to consider lowering the age for Cervical Smear testing from 25 to 20.\r\n \r\nThis is close to my heart as I lost my niece in 2010 to cervical cancer at the age of 23.\r\n \r\nMy niece, Maryanne Makepeace, had visited her doctor's on numerous occasions with the same problem, which was always treated as a water infection, even though tests were negative.\r\n \r\nAlarm bells never rang, because they quite simply considered that at her age, she was not at risk.\r\n \r\nThe problem progressed, and after I insisted she go back, she finally managed to persuade her doctor to have tests at the Hospital.\r\n \r\nShe had the tests carried out and was given the devastating news that she had cervical cancer, at Stage 3 – too late for her.\r\n \r\nHad the doctors taken her seriously at the beginning while still in the First Stage, she would have been caught with the cancer cells, and would still be here today, loving and caring for the two beautiful little girls that she has left behind.\r\n \r\nThis disease devastates lives and is ongoing. It has been 2 years now since the Jade Goody story and petition, and we are still not being heard. After the defeated Jade Goody campaign in 2009, the Government said they would urge GP’s to improve diagnosis of young women, by spotting symptoms at an earlier stage.\r\n \r\nThis has clearly not happened, Maryanne put her faith in her doctor, and was let down by the system. The Government needs to act now with a rigorous review of the current screening age. This cancer is brutal, and what really hurts is that Maryanne, and Jade, should still be here.\r\n \r\nRegular tests are carried out in Wales and Scotland at the age of 20, we need to do something about changing the age in England to 20, before more families are torn apart with more girls losing their lives at such a young age.\r\n \r\nSurely the best fight for this deadly disease is prevention of the cells taking hold?\r\n \r\nPlease, I urge you, sign my petition, and to the Prime Minister – please, please consider lowering the age of screening.\r\n

2. Nicky Morgan Loughborough

   21/04/2011 at 11:52 am

   Member of Parliament for Loughborough

3. Elliot Steel Loughborough

   21/04/2011 at 11:53 am
4. David Cox Loughborough

   21/04/2011 at 12:12 pm
5. Scott Culcheth Loughborough

   21/04/2011 at 12:15 pm
6. Fleur Christie Loughborough

   27/04/2011 at 2:19 pm
7. Amanda Mould Loughborough

   27/04/2011 at 2:52 pm
8. Judith Spence Loughborough

   27/04/2011 at 5:32 pm