The Department of Health has confirmed that an additional £8m is to be allocated to the breast cancer screening programme to allow screening to be extended from next year to cover women aged between 65 and 70 .The extension of the mammography service will allow screening of an additional 400,000 women a year. There will also be an additional £100m DoH investment in cancer equipment, of which £40m will go towards scanners and computers in the next financial year.