<p>Cancer Detection Rates</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:40 pm on 21 June 2016.

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Photo of Vikki Howells Vikki Howells Labour 1:40, 21 June 2016

Thank you, First Minister. Last week was Cervical Screening Awareness Week, a Europe-wide project to raise awareness of the role of screening in tackling cervical cancer. While mortality rates for cervical cancer are dropping, there was also a slight decline in screening uptake, and I’m particularly concerned that one in three 25 to 29-year-olds don’t attend their smear tests. How can the Welsh Government encourage more women of all ages, but younger women in particular, to attend the screenings that could save their lives?