12 March 2013

UK: NHS RIP

From UK DAILY MAIL

Doctors said my son was constipated - in fact, he had CANCER: Mother's fury after doctors missed basketball-sized tumour 11 TIMES as survival odds slashed to 40%

Doctors told Sharon Woolley her son Charlie, 5, was constipated
Kept prescribing laxatives even after his symptoms continued to get worse
Five months after they first appeared he 'looked five months pregnant'
On 11th visit, doctors finally scanned him and found huge tumour in stomach
Was so big they couldn’t even see his lungs or liver on the scan
Delayed diagnosis means his chance of survival has been slashed to 40%

By Lucy Laing
PUBLISHED: 19:21 GMT, 12 March 2013 | UPDATED: 22:36 GMT, 12 March 2013

A mother has spoken of her fury after doctors sent her son home 11 times in five months before discovering a football-sized tumour in his stomach.
Sharon Woolley was told her five-year-old son Charlie was suffering from constipation - when all along he had neuroblastoma, a rare and aggressive cancer with one of the lowest survival rates.

Miss Woolley believes the time delay in diagnosis may now affect whether he survives the disease or not. He has been given a survival rate of less than 40 per cent.

(COMMENT: Average NHS GP visit = 4-5 min.)

PROSTATE Ca. affects UK UROLOGISTS

From UK DAILY MAIL

In a cruel twist of fate, these three top prostate cancer experts have ALL been hit by the disease. Their stories are vital reading for men - and their loved ones

By Victoria Lambert
PUBLISHED: 00:35 GMT, 12 March 2013 | UPDATED: 01:51 GMT, 12 March 2013

Every year 40,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer — and more than 10,000 die from it.

Treatment can cause anxiety and side-effects such as impotence and incontinence. Many ask: what would the experts do in my shoes?

In a remarkable coincidence, three of the UK’s leading experts reveal that they, too, have the cancer and here they talk about their experiences . . .