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Jane Ghosh asks why the NHS\u2019s routine screening for bowel and breast cancer has upper age limits (Letters, 28 April). Screening \u2013 testing because of risk, not symptoms \u2013 stops when the chance of helping you drops below the chance of harming you. Diagnostic testing is done at any age. Re Jane Ghosh\u2019s letter about the NHS stopping routine bowel and breast cancer testing after the early 70s, it\u2019s 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. 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\u00a0farms (Industrial chicken producer hits out over Wye and Usk river pollution claim, 27 April). Time to stop eating chicken? I would love to see an illustration of Tony Capstick\u2019s \u201cgreat useless, spawny-eyed, parrot-faced wazzock\u201d (Letters, 28 April). Sir Quentin Blake, Gerald\u00a0Scarfe, David Shrigley? Your photo caption in the print edition (Sport, 24\u00a0April) says that Liam Rosenior had \u201cpaid the price\u201d for Chelsea\u2019s disappointing recent form. If receiving a reported \u00a34m payoff is \u201cpaying the price\u201d then I may apply to be the next manager. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jane Ghosh asks why the NHS\u2019s routine screening for bowel and breast cancer has upper age limits (Letters, 28 April). Screening \u2013 testing because of risk, not symptoms \u2013 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[2822,654,665,1815,3998],"class_list":{"0":"post-49007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-age","9":"tag-cancer","10":"tag-limits","11":"tag-routine","12":"tag-tests"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Dr John Doherty <\/strong>
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire<\/em><\/p>\n
David Duell<\/strong>
Durham<\/em><\/p>\n
Ann Newell<\/strong>
Thame, Oxfordshire<\/em><\/p>\n
Rob Johnsey<\/strong>
Falmouth, Cornwall<\/em><\/p>\n
Toby Wood<\/strong>
Peterborough <\/em><\/p>\n