OneStop breast cancer diagnostic clinics for Cigna customers

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Cigna UK HealthCare Benefits (Cigna) and BreastHealth UK have formed an alliance to offer Cigna customers OneStop breast cancer diagnostics from beginning January 2016.

Customers can arrange an OneStop breast cancer diagnostic appointment within five working days via self-referral.

Customers will be offered triple assessment in one appointment which includes clinical breast examination.

The assessment also includes breast ultrasound and/or mammography for those aged 35+ and image-guided tissue biopsy or cyst aspiration.

Phil Austin, managing director of Cigna's UK HealthCare Benefits said: "Every week, nearly 900 people are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK. With our unique new

"OneStop breast cancer diagnostics, customers can be confident they will get fast access to cancer specialists near to their home. This crucial time saving one-visit diagnostics service is currently not commonplace in the UK."

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