Repro Free: 30/09/2014<br /> Kathleen O'Meara, the Head of Advocacy and Communications with the Irish Cancer Society is pictured with 72 year old Margaret Hayden as the Irish Cancer Society  joined by cancer campaigners from across Ireland as they submit a petition to Government, calling on the Minister for Health to take action and include extending the breast cancer screening programme for women aged 65-69 in the HSE&rsquo;s Services Plan for 2015. The Government said the extension of BreastCheck would take place during 2014 but then made a decision to defer it. At least eighty-seven lives are being lost to breast cancers every year due to the delay in screening the upper age group of women.  Picture Andres Poveda
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