Friday, 28 March 2014

Wait for breast cancer diagnosis too long, report says

Women across Canada are waiting weeks longer than they should be to find out if they have breast cancer, according to a sweeping new report evaluating the country’s efforts to fight all types of cancer. No province is meeting a national benchmark for how quickly the majority of patients receive a diagnosis after an abnormality is spotted during a breast screening, with Quebec missing the target by the widest margin. Read more here.

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