Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 28 January 2016
238. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 19 January 2016 (details supplied), the number of the 500 women in the 65 to 69 age cohort who were screened in 2015 who were aged 69. [3480/16]
View answerThe BreastCheck extension began in Quarter 4 of 2015. The first cohort of 1,000 women involved those aged 65 being invited for a repeat mammogram. Over 640 of these women aged 65 were screened. The process will continue with women being invited for routine screening every two years until they are 69 years of age.
Thus none of the women in the 65 to 69 age cohort who were screened in 2015 were aged 69.
