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Breast cancer screening guidelines discriminate against families like mine | Brief letters

Health concerns | Rubbish decisions | In sympathy | Funeral songs | Short illnesses Calls 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.…

Breast cancer screening guidelines discriminate against families like mine | Brief letters

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