Friday, July 13, 2007

Breast cancer patients in long waiting queues

It is a burning news in the marketplace that there are a true alarming number of women that have been suspected with breast cancer have been found to be waiting too long to be seen by a specialist if the field... and this truth has been revealed and warned by the community of experts themselves.

Everyone knows that the Department of Health had introduced a "two week wait rule" in the year of 1999 specifically to address urgent cases of suspected breast cancer's existence in patients.

Very recently, all the experts have come forward and have called for a real "urgent" review of the same target. After their study, it was found that a rising number of breast cancer cases among women were being classed as being "non-urgent" and thus these patients were being forced to wait more than two weeks which wasn't good anyway.

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