Cancer Screening Helped Save a North East Woman's Life
Evening Chronicle › August 08, 2011
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FIVE women in the North East are diagnosed with breast cancer each day, worrying statistics have shown.
Every year, the NHS Breast Screening Programme invites around 270,000 women from the region to be screened, and last year, the Gateshead Breast Screening Unit lowered the age at which women are invited from 50 to 47.See the full content of this document
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Cancer Screening Helped Save a North East Woman's Life
In 2008, almost 48,000 women in the UK were diagnosed with breast cancer and in 2010, 17,000 cases of the disease were detected through the NHS Breast Screening Programme.
Until recently, women were invited to be screened within three years of their 50th birthday, but rising cases of breast cancer in younger women and new digital...See the full content of this document
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