SCOTS BEATING BREAST CANCER

BREAST cancer deaths plummeted to an all-time low last year as record numbers of women were screened.

The survival rate among Scotland’s breast cancer sufferers has risen by 32 per cent over the past 20 years as the number of women coming forward for screening more than doubled.

A downturn in the mortality rate means that the number of patients dying from the disease across Scotland has dropped from more than 7,200 in 1990 to around 5,400 in 2008.