Women march for cancer awareness

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Forty-six women have marched through central London wearing pink camouflage uniforms to encourage women to be screened for breast cancer.

The march was led by Lt Cdr Rachel Scandling, who had a double mastectomy after finding she carried a gene that increased her chances of cancer.

They marched from Tower Bridge to a Cancer Research UK laboratory at Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Parts of London have the lowest uptake of screening in the UK, the NHS found.

Its research showed that 47% of women in central and east London failed to attend screenings when invited.

The 46 marchers represented the 46,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK each year.

Lt Cdr Scandling said: "I have had to make some difficult choices in my fight for survival, but breast cancer is a battle that lots of women can win."