Patients with breast cancer at the triad are recalled after treatment criticism

At Tayside, more than 300 bad cancer patients are offered treatment reviews after receiving lower doses of chemotherapy than anywhere else in Scotland.

The NHS Tayside also reverts to the standard dosing schedule following a report by Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) that criticized the change in prescription that patients were unaware of.

Oncologists at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee decided in 2016 to modify the FEC-T chemotherapy regimen compared to the standard doses used in …