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Women at high risk of breast cancer could be forced to endure long waits for genetic testing and extra screening for the disease because NHS services for such patients receive too little money, cancer experts have warned.
Some experts in Britain's most common cancer are expecting the NHS to face increasing demand from women anxious about developing breast cancer and keen to be tested after actor Angelina Jolie revealed on Tuesday that she had undergone a double mastectomy that had reduced her risk of getting breast cancer from 87% to 5%.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/15/angelina-jolie-breast-cancer-tests
Some experts in Britain's most common cancer are expecting the NHS to face increasing demand from women anxious about developing breast cancer and keen to be tested after actor Angelina Jolie revealed on Tuesday that she had undergone a double mastectomy that had reduced her risk of getting breast cancer from 87% to 5%.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/15/angelina-jolie-breast-cancer-tests