Because of the pandemic, around a million fewer women in England were screened for breast cancer, which equates to a million missed opportunities to catch the disease early enough to treat it.
‘I remember feeling disappointed, but I did understand,’ she tells Metro.co.uk. ‘At that point, going to public places felt like it carried a higher risk than the chance that you might have cancer.But Susan, 62, had always been vigilant about attending her breast screenings and so decided that, in the absence of her‘If I hadn’t done that, and I’d waited for my appointment to come back around, I might not be here today,’ she says.
‘And, although services were restarted across England throughout the Summer of 2020 they were operating at limited capacity,’ The fact that Susan was diligent in checking herself for lumps, after having her mammogram postponed, potentially saved her life. ‘Changes to the system mean that in England, women in many areas are being asked to contact their local unit to make their appointment rather than being sent a timed appointment,’ Sturtevant explains.
‘It’s vital that every aspect of the breast screening programme is designed to maximise the number of women that take up their invite’ ‘It’s vital that every aspect of the breast screening programme is designed to maximise the number of women that take up their invite.’ It’s one of the reasons Labour MP Dawn Butler launched the #FindTheMillion campaign with Metro.co.uk to encourage women across the UK to go for their mammograms. As a cancer survivor herself, Dawn only discovered she had breast cancer through the vital screening.
As part of her campaign, Dawn is asking women to let her know when they’ve signed up for a breast screening. One of those who was inspired by Dawn’s story is 64-year-old Stephanie O’Brien, from Cambridge. ‘My poor husband was absolutely freaked out,’ she says. ‘But for me, although it was a shock and a surprise, I’ve never been afraid, never at all.‘The thing that makes my blood run cold whenever I think about it is thinking that I could easily haven’t gone, as I hadn’t done for so many years.
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