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who are at lower risk of breast cancer – about a third of the population – would be better off not being invited for NHS screening for the disease, according to new research.

Researchers at University College London have found in a modelling study that screening according to risk would reduce the number of women who are put through unnecessary tests and treatment for breast cancer without substantially increasing the numbers who are missed.

Only 72% of women invited to breast screening actually go. The UCL researchers say that genetic testing and informing each women of her individual risk could result in just the 70% at highest risk being screened, while the low risk 30% are not given an invitation to have a mammogram every three years as they are now..