An Excel with 6,400 Mammograms Not Done for Lack of Staff: Andalusia Ignored a Second Warning to Stop the Screening Crisis

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When the screening scandal broke out in October 2025 and it was discovered that the Andalusian public health system had left 2,317 women who needed proof to clarify whether they were suffering from breast cancer, only a restricted group of people knew that everything could have been avoided thanks to a document. It was a plan, unveiled by EL PAÍS on Friday and proposed in 2023 by radiologists at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville—a referen…

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An internal document by the head of the radiologists of the Virgen del Rocío hospital, epicenter of the crisis of breast cancer screenings, reveals that both in 2023 and in 2025, the situation of chaos that was experienced and that left thousands of patients with the tests hanging, not only those of the screening, could be avoided.