Professor Arnold Hill:

It is a very good question. The key issue is that we have a system for each individual to work out what his or her true risk is. We could take a detailed history and identify whether someone is high, medium or low risk. There are appropriate pathways of care for that. That is available to people. If a GP wanted to send the woman to a symptomatic breast unit, a triage process will work. The benefit of that is sometimes where people feel they have a very strong family history they can be reassured as to what their true risk profile is. Those pathways are in place and can be sought out. If the person concerned was referred to a symptomatic breast unit, that would be looked after for her.