Thursday 3 May 2018

Breast cancer screening: Grieving husband describes 'shell shock' after realising late wife may have not have been invited for tests

Breast cancer screening: Grieving husband describes 'shell shock' after realising late wife may have not have been invited for tests A grieving husband has described his shock at realising his wife may have been among those whose lives were cut short due to a breast cancer screening error.

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt said a “computer algorithm failure” dating back to 2009 had meant many women aged between 68 and 71 in England were not invited to their final routine screening.

He said it was not currently known whether any delay in diagnosis resulted in avoidable death, but that it is estimated between 135 and 270 women had their lives shortened as a result. The Independent

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