Nearly a million women have missed breast screening scans - and an estimated 8,600 have undetected cancer

By Helen Johnson
Published 30th Sep 2020, 11:03 BST
Updated 30th Sep 2020, 11:03 BST
Breast cancer screening programmes were paused in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, and although the service is up and running again, almost one million women in the UK have now missed mammograms (Photo: Shutterstock)Breast cancer screening programmes were paused in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, and although the service is up and running again, almost one million women in the UK have now missed mammograms (Photo: Shutterstock)
Breast cancer screening programmes were paused in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, and although the service is up and running again, almost one million women in the UK have now missed mammograms (Photo: Shutterstock)

Breast cancer screening programmes were paused in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, and although the service is up and running again, almost one million women in the UK have now missed mammograms.

The breast cancer charity Breast Cancer Now has estimated that a total of 986,000 women across the UK missed their mammograms due to the pause in screenings, when the NHS focused its resources on the pandemic.

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In each part of the UK, an estimated 838,000 women missed scans in England, 78,000 in Scotland, 48,000 in Wales and 23,000 in Northern Ireland.