Interesting. But still no prospect of a national screening programme for prostate cancer, which kills more men every year than breast cancer kills women, and far more men than cervical cancer kills women. There are, of course, national screening programmes for both breast cancer and cervical cancer, mainly funded by taxpaying men.

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