I honestly cannot believe I am typing this but the age requirement is officially moving down to 20 starting next year. My brain is still trying to catch up with the news because I just kept staring at the email for ten minutes straight without moving. We actually changed the …
Everyone knows that a cervical smear is available from 25 years old but cancer doesn't choose an age so why should we take that risk? I want to campaign the government to try get the age reduced from 25 to 20, the earlier detection the more chance of saving lives.
Currently CervicalCheck - The National Cervical Screening Programme provides free smear tests to women aged 25 to 60. A smear test is a simple procedure that only takes minutes and is the most effective way to detect changes in the cells of the cervix. By reducing this age to 20 that is cutting off 5 years, imagine how many lives could be saved.
Please sign my petition to try help save lives. This petition will be forwarded on to Minister for Health Dr James Reilly in the hope that he will consider reducing the minimum age for smear tests.
Thank you
I was just reading through the messages from people sharing their own health experiences and honestly it makes me realize how many of us are sitting around waiting for a system that just does not see us yet. It feels like I am constantly typing emails to the health department while they keep giving me the runaround or worse just silence which is so frustrating because this is about actual lives not just policy tweaks.
Reached 100 supporters
August 25, 2012
August 23, 2012
I just looked at the count and we are almost at one hundred signatures which is honestly wild since I started this on a whim because it just keeps itching at the back of my brain that we are waiting too long. If everyone reading this just grabs one other person to sign right now we might actually hit the milestone before I go to make my coffee. It is just so frustrating thinking about those five years of missing screenings because people are getting sick while we wait on policy.
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Dawn Doyle
11 years ago
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Should bw lowered. Im 24 with 2 baby girls and terrified by the time im 25 it could be too late
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Laura Cleary
11 years ago
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I'm the mother of one daughter, who had precancerous cells 4 years ago aged 23 and have seen a family friend die of cervical cancer this year. I would love to see the age lowered for my daughter and all the other girls out there
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Nicole
12 years ago
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as a cervical cancer (im suffering all Gyne cancers) I think it should be lowered to 16 the age of legal sexual activity. im 22 diagnosed at 21. It should be made more aware!
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kelly thompson
12 years ago
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Think the age should be lowered to possibly 16 as mist girls are sexually active by then and some have had multiple partners.
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pippa russell
12 years ago
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I really think the age should be reduced as so many young woman are active in there early life these days
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Anonymous
12 years ago
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I'm a mother of 3 girls who had treatment 15 years ago for precancerous cells at 22 years of age. Would like to see the age of cervicalcheck reduced so screening is available to my daughters and all women at an earlier age than it was was for myself.
I honestly cannot believe I am typing this but the age requirement is officially moving down to 20 starting next year. My brain is still trying to catch up with the news because I just kept staring at the email for ten minutes straight without moving. We actually changed the …
Everyone knows that a cervical smear is available from 25 years old but cancer doesn't choose an age so why should we take that risk? I want to campaign the government to try get the age reduced from 25 to 20, the earlier detection the more chance of saving lives.
Currently CervicalCheck - The National Cervical Screening Programme provides free smear tests to women aged 25 to 60. A smear test is a simple procedure that only takes minutes and is the most effective way to detect changes in the cells of the cervix. By reducing this age to 20 that is cutting off 5 years, imagine how many lives could be saved.
Please sign my petition to try help save lives. This petition will be forwarded on to Minister for Health Dr James Reilly in the hope that he will consider reducing the minimum age for smear tests.
Thank you
I was just reading through the messages from people sharing their own health experiences and honestly it makes me realize how many of us are sitting around waiting for a system that just does not see us yet. It feels like I am constantly typing emails to the health department while they keep giving me the runaround or worse just silence which is so frustrating because this is about actual lives not just policy tweaks.
Reached 100 supporters
August 25, 2012
August 23, 2012
I just looked at the count and we are almost at one hundred signatures which is honestly wild since I started this on a whim because it just keeps itching at the back of my brain that we are waiting too long. If everyone reading this just grabs one other person to sign right now we might actually hit the milestone before I go to make my coffee. It is just so frustrating thinking about those five years of missing screenings because people are getting sick while we wait on policy.
18 Comments
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Dawn Doyle
11 years ago
Featured
Should bw lowered. Im 24 with 2 baby girls and terrified by the time im 25 it could be too late
L
Laura Cleary
11 years ago
Featured
I'm the mother of one daughter, who had precancerous cells 4 years ago aged 23 and have seen a family friend die of cervical cancer this year. I would love to see the age lowered for my daughter and all the other girls out there
N
Nicole
12 years ago
Featured
as a cervical cancer (im suffering all Gyne cancers) I think it should be lowered to 16 the age of legal sexual activity. im 22 diagnosed at 21. It should be made more aware!
K
kelly thompson
12 years ago
Featured
Think the age should be lowered to possibly 16 as mist girls are sexually active by then and some have had multiple partners.
P
pippa russell
12 years ago
Featured
I really think the age should be reduced as so many young woman are active in there early life these days
A
Anonymous
12 years ago
Featured
I'm a mother of 3 girls who had treatment 15 years ago for precancerous cells at 22 years of age. Would like to see the age of cervicalcheck reduced so screening is available to my daughters and all women at an earlier age than it was was for myself.
Should bw lowered. Im 24 with 2 baby girls and terrified by the time im 25 it could be too late