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Last week Dr Shane Reti’s bill to extend free mammograms to women aged 74 was brought into parliament. Currently only women up to the age of 69 can get a free cancer screeing.
Although there was no time to vote on the bill, there was a lot of promising cross-party support from Labour, National, ACT and the Greens.
Rawan spoke to research manager at the Breast Cancer foundation Adele Gautier about the foundations support of this bill, what it will mean for older women in particular and what the next steps are for breast cancer treatment
By 95bFMLast week Dr Shane Reti’s bill to extend free mammograms to women aged 74 was brought into parliament. Currently only women up to the age of 69 can get a free cancer screeing.
Although there was no time to vote on the bill, there was a lot of promising cross-party support from Labour, National, ACT and the Greens.
Rawan spoke to research manager at the Breast Cancer foundation Adele Gautier about the foundations support of this bill, what it will mean for older women in particular and what the next steps are for breast cancer treatment

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