Breast Cancer Lottery: The 9-Month Wait for Treatment Charities Protest at Hospital Delays

The Herald › December 19, 2005

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PATIENTS with breast cancer are having to wait for up to nine months for treatment in Scotland.

Figures published today show the full true extent of the postcode lottery facing women with the disease.

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Breast Cancer Lottery: The 9-Month Wait for Treatment Charities Protest at Hospital Delays

The first hospital-by-hospital breakdown of this year's waiting time figures shows that the longest delay was at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, where a woman urgently referred by h...

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