Overview

• The regional health department began phoning the roughly 2,000 affected women one by one and will review mammograms from the past three years, with a goal of informing all within a week and detailing findings within a month.
• Officials traced the lapse to cases labeled “possibly benign” that were not clearly communicated for follow‑up; a protocol change will add an explanatory contact, and the program notes that about 98% of these cases prove benign.
• Hospitals including Seville’s Virgen del Rocío are under scrutiny, President Juan Manuel Moreno apologized, and a contact channel was opened as patient group Amama presses for transparency and considers a collective claim.
• Spain’s health minister, Mónica García, requested prevention data from all regions to assess performance after the Andalusian failures in the publicly funded screening program.
• AECC’s ‘Nos lo tomamos a pecho’ campaign spotlights survivorship needs and trends—about 36,000 breast cancer diagnoses in Spain in 2024, roughly 24% under age 50, around 85% five‑year survival, high fear of recurrence, and frequent economic strain—alongside October outreach and screening drives.