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May 2018
Breast screening mistake ‘could have been spotted earlier’
According to a leading cancer expert, the recently publicised failure to send out invitations for breast screening could date back further than previously thought, affecting tens of thousands more women throughout England.
Professor Peter Sasieni of King’s College London and lead investigator of the Cancer Research UK programme in cancer screening and statistics, said the problems go back as far as 2005 and could have been spotted earlier.
Professor Sasieni said “Data that could have alerted people to the lack of invitations being sent to women aged 70 was publicly available, but no one looked at it carefully enough.”
He went on to say “It is important that the computer systems used to run our cancer screening programmes are reviewed and, if necessary replaced – and that detailed anonymous data are made available for independent scrutiny.”
Public Health England’s Professor John Newton, said “This is a flawed analysis which fails to take into account some important facts, such as when the breast screening programme was rolled out to all 70 year olds in England or when a clinical trial was started called Age X.”
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