Jane Ghosh asks why the NHS’s routine screening for bowel and breast cancer has upper age limits (Letters, 28 April). Screening – testing because of risk, not symptoms – stops when the chance of helping you drops below the chance of harming you. Diagnostic testing is done at any age.
Dr John Doherty
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
• Re Jane Ghosh’s letter about the NHS stopping routine bowel and breast cancer testing after the early 70s, it’s important to know that people over the age thresholds can request a bowel cancer test every two years or breast cancer screening every three years. Remembering to do so is a different story.
David Duell
Durham
• As a child in the 1950s, I remember eating chicken once a year, at Christmas. The bird came from a local farm. Now millions of chickens are raised in huge battery farms (Industrial chicken producer hits out over Wye and Usk river pollution claim, 27 April). Time to stop eating chicken?
Ann Newell
Thame, Oxfordshire
• I would love to see an illustration of Tony Capstick’s “great useless, spawny-eyed, parrot-faced wazzock” (Letters, 28 April). Sir Quentin Blake, Gerald Scarfe, David Shrigley?
Rob Johnsey
Falmouth, Cornwall
• Your photo caption in the print edition (Sport, 24 April) says that Liam Rosenior had “paid the price” for Chelsea’s disappointing recent form. If receiving a reported £4m payoff is “paying the price” then I may apply to be the next manager.
Toby Wood
Peterborough
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