article_snippet: Older women are dying needlessly from Breast Cancer because Older women are not offered screening on NHS, MPs warn.
article_snippet: MPs say it is wrong that women are no longer invited for mammograms once women reach 70 when women are more likely to die than those in women 50s and 60s.
article_snippet: Group also warns that an age-bias in NHS is denying thousands of older women life-saving surgery and chemotherapy.
article_snippet: ’ Group Breast Cancer says Group is wrong that women are no longer invited for mammograms once women reach 70 when women are more likely to die than those in women 50s and 60s (file image)
article_snippet: Although the risk of breast cancer slightly declines once a women reaches 70, breast cancer is actually more likely to die from the illness than younger age groups.
article_snippet: The NHS’s screening programme invites women for three-yearly mammograms between the ages of 50 and 70.
article_snippet: MPs also fear that thousands of older women are being denied life-saving surgery or chemotherapy .
article_snippet: Whilst some progress has been made, there is still a lot of work to do in ensuring that older people with breast cancer receive the care, treatment and support that is most appropriate to older people with breast cancer. '
article_snippet: There are 8,300 cases of breast cancer in the UK a year in women in their 70s, compared to 12,800 in their 60s and 10,600 in their 50s. '
article_snippet: Dr Fran Woodard, of Macmillan Cancer Support, said:
highlights_snippet: MPs warn it is wrong that women are not asked for mammograms from 70 .
  
highlights_snippet: Group warns that NHS age-bias is denying thousands surgery and chemo .
  