ITV’s This Morning Agony Aunt Deidre Sanders diagnosed with cancer after screening ‘error’
The NHS automatically invites women for their first breast screening between the ages of 50 and 53. Women are then invited for one every three years until they turn 71.Speaking to The Sun, she described how she began to develop a back pain last summer, which then spread to her right breast.
This led Sanders to schedule an appointment at the breast clinic at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge.She was then put on a two week cancer pathway which is a referral process for anyone who has suspected cancer. After undergoing a mammogram, which is the process of using low-energy X-rays to examine the human breast, which revealed malignant cells.
Sanders said that she was invited for a screening ‘a couple of years later’ but didn’t take the offer up. She said: “By then I reckoned I must be too old to need it any more as the NHS stops inviting you for a screening after that age. Hah!" Mentioning the diagnosis on 27 September, Sanders also revealed that she is scheduled for surgery on Saturday, 1 October.
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