Women and their families caught up in the breast screening failure have demanded answers as to how hundreds of patients may have had their lives cut short.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has launched an independent review after he revealed a computer error dating back to 2009 meant many women aged 68 to 71 in England were not invited to their final routine screening.
He admitted 450,000 women could be affected and that between 135 and 270 women could have had their lives shortened as a result.
Now hundreds of thousands of women are learning they could have to wait up to six months to be checked for breast cancers after the ‘colossal failure’.
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