Breast cancer screening guidelines discriminate against families like mine | Brief letters
Health concerns | Rubbish decisions | In sympathy | Funeral songs | Short illnessesCalls for changes to breast cancer guidelines for GPs are welcome (Report, 4 August). The existing guidelines are irrational. If your grandmother and mother have both had breast cancer, you are still not added to the intensified screening list unless an aunt or great-aunt or sister has also had breast cancer. Hence the system discriminates against families – like mine – with only one woman in a…
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