Women At Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer Through Radiotherapy Not Offered Screening Due to NHS Error

The NHS has apologised to almost 1,500 women at increased risk of breast cancer through historic radiation treatment for a “failure to refer” them for annual scans, which could have saved their lives. NHS England said that 1,487 women who received radiotherapy above the waist to treat Hodgkin lymphoma between 1962 to 2003 were not referred for routine monitoring. The women will be contacted and offered MRI scans within the next three months, Health Secretary Victoria Atkins told the House of Commons. The secretary of state said that letters sent to the affected women would explain how they came to be left off the Very High Risk pathway that they ought to have been placed on....