Cervical Cancer Screening
EDM number 1251 in 2008-09, proposed by Fraser Kemp on 01/04/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases and Health education and preventive medicine.
That this House welcomes the recent Written Ministerial Statement by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health announcing that the Independent Advisory Committee on Cervical Screening will now formally review all available evidence relating to the issue of screening women under 25 years old and take evidence from interested parties; and congratulates families, individuals and the cervical charity Jo's Trust on their campaigning work; and hopes the results of the review will result in a reduction in the number of women who develop invasive cervical cancer and the number of women who die from it.
This motion has been signed by a total of 72 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
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