Study finds breast cancer screening misses 95% of high-risk women under 50

Women under 50 at high risk of breast cancer are missing early detection opportunities, potentially leading to later-stage diagnoses and worse health outcomes.

A Cambridge study has quietly exposed a profound failure at the heart of Britain's breast cancer screening system: the guidelines meant to identify younger women at elevated risk are reaching only one in twenty of those who will actually develop the disease. For the ninety-five percent left undetected, the window for early intervention closes silently, often without the woman or her doctor ever knowing it was open. This is not a story about rare medical error, but about the distance that can grow between a system's intentions and its real-world consequences — and about what is lost in that gap

Study finds breast cancer screening misses 95% of high-risk women under 50

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