The 'worried well' are overwhelming the breast cancer referral system

Cancer fast track scheme is causing longer waits - Guardian

Extract:

"A fast-track system for urgent suspected cases of breast cancer is being overwhelmed by the worried well, leaving thousands of women with genuine breast cancer anxiously waiting a month or more to see a specialist, a study reveals.

An estimated 8,800 women a year who are eventually diagnosed with breast cancer are labelled "routine" cases under the system, waiting for weeks despite increasing numbers of other women being fast-tracked to a consultant, it says.

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) article calls for an urgent overhaul, saying the government's 1999 target of a two-week wait for urgent cases has created an "alarming" two-tiered system of treatment. "The system is failing patients and a change is urgently needed," the paper says."

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