Cancer patients becoming terminally ill and ‘dying because of long NHS waits’

CANCER patients are becoming terminally ill and dying because of long NHS waits, doctors warn. The number waiting longer than three months to start treatment has doubled in a year to 10,189 — with 327,395 now due to begin therapy. 1 Cancer patients are becoming terminally ill and dying because of long NHS waits, doctors warn Credit: Getty Patient, Caroline Boulton, 56, says cancelled scans during Covid and delays at every stage of treatment resulted in her incurable breast cancer. She told the BBC: “I’ve now got stage four cancer that I shouldn’t have — and two years to live.”… Read Full Article