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The NHS criteria for screening women under 50 for breast cancer are so narrow that up to 95% of those at higher risk are being missed, researchers have warned. The current guidelines focus solely on inherited genes, but new research has found that three-quarters of women under 50 who develop breast cancer within a decade have no family history of the disease.
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