Petition for earlier breast screening reaches 100k

A Kent nurse has vowed to continue her campaign calling for the age of mammogram screenings to be lowered after a petition she launched received over 100,000 signatures.

Gemma Reeves, who works at Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, said she will not "fully relax until there is policy change" around the age in which women are invited by the NHS for the screenings.

Her petition calls for the lowering of the screening age by ten years to 40 and to make invites annual, rather than every three years.

The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) said it is "taking decisive action to tackle breast cancer head-on", including launching AI trials to support analysis of mammograms.