Surgeon would have ordered mammogram for patient in 2007 if he had the resources

A breast cancer surgeon facing six allegations of professional misconduct told a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry if he’d had the resources he had today he would have referred a 40-year-old woman, who subsequently died of breast cancer, for a mammogram the first time he saw her.

Dr C, who cannot be named on direction of the inquiry committee, said he was frustrated by the shortage of resources available in 2007. Resources had improved dramatically since then with the introduction of the National Cancer Control Programme. (Times) >