An interesting piece in yesterday’s Telegraph (£). The paper is campaigning for ‘targeted screening’, more below. An extract:

“The report – to be released in the Commons on Tuesday – shows that screening all men aged 50 to 69 would be significantly cheaper than the current breast screening programme.

The research shows that first targeting checks at the groups most at risk – those who are black, have a family history of the disease or genes linked to it, and are aged between 45 and 69 – would cost 0.01 per cent of the NHS budget.” [J4MB: Note that women are eligible for breast cancer screening between the agres of 50 and 71. Other than age, there is no ‘targeting’ for breast cancer testing on the grounds of race.]

In addition to those with a history of prostate cancer or genes linked to prostate cancer, all black men will be tested, and no white men. Those black men’s lives will be deemed by the state to be worth £18, the white men’s lives will be deemed to be worth nothing. There are 20x more white men than black men in the UK.

The findings suggest around £20,000 would be spent for every year of life saved – well within the thresholds typically considered cost-effective for the NHS.”

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