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Scots pensioners denied breast cancer checks because they are too old amid NHS backlog

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Get the latest Renfrewshire stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter A worried Scot has been told she can no longer get lumps in her breasts checked because she is too old.

Since Covid the Scottish Government have introduced restrictions on the age women are allowed to self refer which means Morven Cumming, 74, has to live in fear the lumps she has in both breasts will turn cancerous and not be able to get early treatment.

When she was in her 30s and her son, Richard, was just a toddler she discovered several lumps in both breasts.Morven said: “I was in the shower and found discoloured lumps.

My first thought was ‘I have cancer. I’m going to die. My son will be left without his mum’.” However, a consultant at Paisley’s

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