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News items on 'Mammogram'

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Cancer cases found after errors

(BBC 17/09/2009)

Eighteen women have been told they have breast cancer after screening errors by a radiologist in East Lancashire failed to detect the disease. The women were among hundreds who had mammograms at Accrington Victoria Community Hospital, of which 355 cases were reviewed in an independent study. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust said it was "not possible" to say if the women's prognosis was affected. The radiologist involved last screened patients in December 2008.

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