NHS Breast Cancer Guidelines Miss 95% of At-Risk Women Under 50

NICE guidelines used by GPs to refer women for breast cancer risk assessment are failing catastrophically, missing up to 95% of younger women who will develop the disease within a decade. Research by the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Cancer Research found the current criteria focus almost exclusively on inherited genes, yet three-quarters of women under 50 who develop breast cancer have no family history. Under the existing rules, only 1.4% of women under 50...