Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at 1:07 pm on 9 October 2025.
Clare Adamson
Scottish National Party
1:07,
9 October 2025
I appreciate that the Minister is about to move on to say what is happening. I want to remember on record that one of the first things that Christina did after her diagnosis was to have the age protocols for screening changed. I was a couple of months older than Christina—she never let me forget it—but, because of the cycle of when people were called to be tested, I had my first breast cancer screening test three years before she did. She changed that system to ensure that every woman would have that screening in her 50th year.
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