'Don't wait until it's too late': Breast screening record set

Hunter Breast Cancer Foundation general manager Abbey McDonell and supportive care coordinator Marianne Timbrell-Chapman. Picture by Jonathan Carroll

More than 5400 women were screened for breast cancer in the Hunter New England health district in May, as mammograms rebounded from a record low during the pandemic.

They were among a record 37,000 women who had mammograms at BreastScreen NSW clinics during that month.