This month, football teams are wearing pink to raise breast cancer awareness. Next month is Movember, and prostate cancer awareness.
Awareness leads to early detection and quick treatment that saves lives. So upon a warning sign, I promptly went to the doctor, got an ultrasound and a CT scan within two weeks, and was referred for a biopsy (frightening word).
But the system has a bottleneck; it has been six weeks and no word on an appointment.
Raising cancer awareness is fine, but it has to be tied to tests that are accessible in a reasonable time.
Theodora Masran
Calgary
