Breast screening Archives - Chadwick Lawrence

08
Jan 2019

Patients who receive a ‘false positive’ during breast screening are 50 per cent more likely to be diagnosed later in life

Researchers have found that patients who are given a ‘false positive’ during breast screening are 50 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer later in their life. A recently published study in the British Journal of Cancer states that this result raises the possibility of a diagnosis from two to four per…

29
May 2018

Breast screening mistake ‘could have been spotted earlier’

According to a leading cancer expert, the recently publicised failure to send out invitations for breast screening could date back further than previously thought, affecting tens of thousands more women throughout England. Professor Peter Sasieni of King’s College London and lead investigator of the Cancer Research UK programme in cancer screening and statistics, said the…

04
May 2018

Breast screening error may have shortened up to 270 lives

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that 450,000 women in their late 60s and early 70s had not received invitations for breast screening since 2009, due to an IT error. He apologised ‘wholeheartedly’ to the women and their families, and has announced an independent review into the oversight. Of the 450,000 women that have been…

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Patients who receive a ‘false positive’ during breast screening are 50 per cent more likely to be diagnosed later in life

Breast screening mistake ‘could have been spotted earlier’

Breast screening error may have shortened up to 270 lives

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