EXPERTS predict more than 100,000 women aged over 65 in Scotland will be living with breast cancer by 2040 – more than four times the number today.
New research from Macmillan Cancer Support claims that, as treatments improve and people live longer, more women will have the disease by the time they are pensioners.
The charity is calling for a rethink on the type of cancer care offered by the NHS if it is to cope with the greater demand on services in the future.
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