Three drug ‘victims’

chucked out.” She added: “I was being duped, definitely.”

Ingrid Torjesen 51, a health journalist from West London, received her invitation in 2013 but she also did not realise it had been as part of a clinical trial until asked to write an article on AgeX for the British Medical Journal.

“I was quite shocked,” she said, confirming she did attend her screening. “Being a health journalist, I understand all the procedures… they’re supposed to counsel you about what it means to be involved, get you to sign all kinds of disclosures. There was none of that.”

Helen Drake, 54, from North London, received an invitation in 2011. She said: “I am particularly concerned about the additional radiation… I had three mammograms before I was 50.”