Jackie's life is saved by routine screening

A Rutherglen mum who was given the all-clear from cancer has hailed a routine breast screening test for“saving her life”.

- RUTH SUTER

Go for your screening, it saved my life, and it could save yours too. It's not scary, and the staff are brilliant Jackie Wilson Living life to the full Jackie says she feels fantastic after surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy to treat her cancer

Jackie Wilson, 56, enjoyed her 30th wedding anniversary with husband Eddie abroad this summer during a trip to Bali and Singapore. But the dream holiday may never have happened if she had not attended her routine breast screening appointment last year.

The Burnside woman went for her scheduled mammogram at the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s (NHSGGC) Breast Screening Clinic in Nelson Mandela Place in March 2024. Within a week, she was called back for a biopsy and quickly referred to Gartnavel Hospital. There, she was told that an unsuspecting three-centimetre lump had been discovered deep in her breast and that it was breast cancer.