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Women should get ANNUAL breast cancer scans, claims Government’s women’s health tsar
Women should get ANNUAL breast cancer scans, claims Government’s women’s health tsar UK’s breast screening programme has the longest gap between screens In the US it is every one or two years and in Europe every two years By Rosie Taylor for the Daily Mail Published: 19:01 EST, 24 January 2023 | Updated: 19:04 EST, 24 January 2023 Offering women annual breast cancer checks could save 1,000 lives a year, the women’s health tsar has said. Dame Lesley Regan said the current system of screening women aged 50 to 70 once every three years was ‘not based on scientific evidence’. The UK’s breast screening programme has the longest gap between screens…