Duchess of York surgeon calls for more breast cancer screening | UK | News

The surgeon who treats the Duchess of York Sarah, thousands of lives can be saved if women are scanned for breast cancer from the age of 40.

Currently, women are invited to scan at 50. However, Dr Christina Choy, one of the surgeons operating in Duchess last year, believes that a wider screening program is necessary to cope with the fourth most common of cancer deaths.

65 -year -old York Sarah Ferguson Duchess, only after a routine mamogram discovered that he had breast cancer. It was treated by a team at the hospital of King Edward VII, a clinic preferred by Royals.

Duchess, which has become a boss of preventing breast cancer, said, “Thanks to my mamogram today,” he said.

Now Dr Choy urged scanning to make it more common. Dr Choy, who treats patients until the age of 23, believes that the cancer cases of the current screening system are missing because women are not called early enough for mamograms.

Currently, women are only suitable for breast scan from the age of 50. However, approximately 10,000 women under 50 years of age are diagnosed in Breast cancer in England every year, 2,400 in their thirties. Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women aged 35-50 years.

Dr Choy believes that women should be scanned between the ages of 40 and 45.

He also says that routine scanning should continue until 75 to ensure that more cases are taken – a movement that will align the UK to other European countries and America and Australia.

He said: “One of the seven women has a risk of developing breast cancer, and while survival heals compared to twenty years ago, we are now missing cases because we cannot scan women under 50 years of age.

“In some countries, screening is recommended every year from the age of 40 and we all know that cancers can develop before the age of 50.

“I saw patients smaller than 23 years.

“Women should be offered earlier and should not stop at 70 if the patient wants. These hundreds and potentially can save thousands of lives.”

He said that even women, who need to be called 50 years and older, were not contacted with mamograms. Many of his appropriate patients said he had never been served.

He said: “Sometimes it is very difficult – women come and see me with symptoms and ask whether they have been invited to scan and say they are not invited at all. What can they do? Jump up and down in GP surgery?”

Dr. Anmol Malhotra said, “The scanning age will be beneficial to extend the age of women from the age of 40 – up to 14% of all breast cancer cases between 40 and 50.

We also see more young people with breast cancer in the young population of adult cancer incidence. “

However, King VII. Dr Malhotra, a radiologist from the Edward Hospital, added: ız We do not have any manpower or resources to offer breast cancer screening to young groups in the UK. We must be honest to the public. ”

Another problem is women who do not receive a mamogram offer. NHS numbers indicate that more than one -third of the women she thinks are suitable.

Last year, NHS breast screening services detected cancer in 18,942 women throughout England, and otherwise it may not have been diagnosed and untreated until a later stage.

However, the latest annual (2022/23) data shows that more than one -third of women (35.4 percent) did not receive a scanning proposal after an invitation and that 2.18 million women did not receive a breast screen in the last three years.

Approximately four of every 100 women scanned are asked to come back for more tests after scanning and provide maintenance and treatment when necessary. These four women will have a cancer, and scanning will prevent estimated deaths from breast cancer in England every year.

Dr Choy said: “As a result of Covid printing measures, we have many problems with the existing system and accumulated works. We need to improve access and I want to see screening services outside the 9-5 office clock to increase purchases in women who are very busy to make daytime appointments.”

In the UK, approximately 55,000 women and 400 men’s breast cancer are diagnosed every year. NHS National Breast Screening and Consultant Radiologist National Specialization Advisor Louise Wilkinson said: “Breast scanning saves lives by allowing cancers to be defined and treated before – in fact, at the earliest stage, discovering breast cancer can give the chance to survive five years or more.”

In the summer of 2023, the Duchess of York had a eight -hour complex operation in his hand to remove breast cancer.

After the operation, Duchess thanked Dr Choy with King Edward VII’s hospital health team.

Health and Social Care Department Spokesperson said:

“The existing age thresholds for scanning have been decided based on the best evidence available.

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