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'Forgotten' women demand justice in Spain breast cancer scandal

Maria Jose de la Fuente, oncology patient and spokesperson of breast cancer association AMAMA. [AFP]

Anabel Cano thought cancer had spared her after she underwent a mammogram in the Spanish region of Andalusia. Having now lost a breast to a mastectomy, she feels betrayed.

"Why did they forget me?" rued Cano, one of hundreds of women affected by a breast cancer screening scandal in the southern region's public health system that has shocked the country.

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