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Cancer Research UK says this offers "reassurance" to many women but warns more highly-trained staff are needed to meet rising demand.Government ministers say this workforce strategy is due shortly.Mairead MacKenzie, 69, from Surrey, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, after finding a swelling under one arm."But I knew it had to be bad," she says.
"Good, clear communication about prognosis can make a vast difference to a patient's quality of life, and how they can cope with things," Mairead says.Breast screening looks for cancers that are too small to see or feel - it's offered only to age groups most at risktracked more than half a million women with early, invasive breast cancer - mostly stage one and two - diagnosed in the 1990s, 2000s and between 2010 and 2015.
"That's good news - and reassuring for clinicians and patients," oncologist and lead researcher Prof Carolyn Taylor says. In time, research will look at the survival rates of patients diagnosed during the Covid pandemic - but there is no data on this yet.
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