No Breast Cancer for Women Over 75 Years
Women over 75 years are not eligible for screening for breast cancer. The court in The Hague yesterday determined that the age of 75 years continues.
The case was brought against the state by 3 women, the Test cases Clara Wichmann Fund and Breast Cancer Society. They also want women older than 75 have the right to the rural population to participate.
Now, only women aged 50 to 75 years every 2 years for a call to be tested. Who is older may be examined, but that happens on demand rather than via a call for screening.
Scientists have regular screening so little use in later life, than because tumors grow so slowly that most patients die before something else.
The plaintiffs call it discrimination. They say that every year hundreds of older women really die needlessly from breast cancer.
The Court is the balance between the usefulness of screening and medical risks that are not made, a medical issue. The Minister of Health policy should therefore be based entirely on the advice of scientists, in this case by the Health.
Only when there are strong indications that an opinion is wrong, it should be waived. That is the breast cancer research is not the case, the court said.
Attorney Richard Korver said in De Telegraaf that the case still gain a little tip for women has yielded. According to the court or because older women have the right to have it checked.
With that statement to older women, according Korver, a research physician at the force. A disadvantage is that that study is done by radiologists and not by people who specialize in detecting breast cancer using a mammography as the screening is the case.
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