Cancer screening take ups not back to pre-pandemic levels, charity warns

Cancer Research UK concerned over dwindling participation in breast and cervical cancer screening

A health charity has sounded the alarm over a dip in the proportion of people taking up the offer for cancer screening as figures show how effective the tests are at catching cancers early.

Breast, bowel and cervical cancer screening programmes have jointly spotted nearly 90,000 cancers between 2019 and 2023, according to analysis by Cancer Research UK (CRUK).