Ethnic minorities in England less likely to get breast cancer diagnosis from routine screening

People from Black, Asian and mixed backgrounds 33% less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer via routine screening. Photograph: By Ian Miles-Flashpoint Pictures/Alamy

People from minority ethnic backgrounds in England are up to a third less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer via routine screening, and are more likely to be diagnosed in an emergency setting, analysis has found.

The research, carried out by academics at the University of Surrey and funded by the charity Breast Cancer Now, involved analysis of 86,564 adults diagnosed with the disease between 2009 and 2019, from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink and the Cancer Registration Tumour and Treatment datasets.