The government wants to better prevent breast cancers. When examining the bill aimed at improving the care of this cancer, the Minister responsible for the health carried out this Wednesday, January 29 to expand access to the currently recommended detection for women from 50 to 74 years.
Specifically, Yann Neuder wishes to reduce the age at which organized detection is recommended, learned BFMTV, confirming information from France Inter. It was in this context that he asked the high authority for health (you have) to investigate its work program for 2025, about the possibilities of expanding the agendals of eligibility age taking into account the latest scientific data available.
It will specify this commitment during World Cancer Day on February 4, the Ministry reports.
Women over 50 are not tested enough
According to Anne-Vincent Salomon, director of the Institute of Women’s Canters of the Institut Curie in Paris, in France Inter, the number of breast cancers in young women has increased in recent years.
“More than 61,000 women per year develop breast cancer in France. Among them, 5,000 are less than 40 years old. Therefore, there is a real question of how to better prevent and better detect these types of cancer that occur in younger women” , said.
Currently, organized projections are offered since 50 years for women without a particular risk factor. However, last year, less than one in two out of two from 50 to 74 years he carried out this exam. It is also recommended from the age of 25 to have a palpation by a doctor, a gynecologist or a midwife every year.
A law to improve management
The deputies unanimously approved on Tuesday night a law aimed at improving the management of care -related care care to relieve patients often high.
The most frequent and deadly cancer in women, places many of them in a fragile financial situation, with often high dependent remains and many non -refunding attention.
With a rest of “1,400 euros on average”, the most precarious patients “renounce the care or products that are not taken care of or not reimbursed enough reimbursed that prove to be too expensive,” according to the rapporteur of the text in the assembly . The text points in particular to an integral management of the renewal of the Mama prostheses, the medical tattoo of the areola and the nipple or the adapted bra.
The government that supported this bill also praised a “text with concrete advances and expected by all women affected by breast cancer”, in the words of the Minister of Health Yannick Neuder.
Source: BFM TV
