About 30% of women in South Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire don't attend breast screenings.
A woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer despite having no symptoms is encouraging others to attend their routine mammograms.
Across South Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton found around 30% of eligible women are not going to their "Some people find it absolutely fine, some people say it feels uncomfortable. We don't get many people who say it's really painful, it's more just the discomfort."As part of her treatment, she underwent a mastectomy with reconstructive surgery and received chemotherapy."I’d got two areas of this cancer in my breast, which meant that I had to have a mastectomy. It was quite a shock to the system," she said.
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