Why the focus on mum’s? Do dad’s with cancer not matter? Is it any less heart-breaking having a dad who’s cancer is incurable? Sexist article headline.
Click bait title. Read article, it only mentions mums once, for an example.
Don’t worry, it’ll be fine once we start seeing the extra money for the NHS from Brexit. /s
Happened with my girlfriend’s dad. Went to Russia in December 2020 and felt unwell whilst out there, got tested and found to have bowel cancer. He decided to come home for treatment but NHS took so long organising their own tests and getting the Russian doctors report translated they didn’t start treatment until mid-March. Unfortunately the cancer progressed extensively and it will be a year since he died on the 9th of May. There’s a good chance that those 3 months wouldn’t have made much difference but it still fucking sucks.
Yep, recently been having patients with advanced diagnoses of cancers and neurodegenerative diseases.
The immense strain on primary care means these patients struggle to see their doctors. Despite this, we had 30 million GP appointments in March
The NHS is finished
Dear Me the Conservative Government is destroying our lives, the NHS,the Education system and all we can do is bicker among ourselves. We play into the hands of evil silently these right wing zealots are destroying U.K.
In July of 2020 I was falsely diagnosed with cancer and was in the process of going through the diagnostic procedures for the doctors to understand exactly what they were dealing with and how to treat it.
A few weeks beforehand I had caught a BBC news report about a woman who was diagnosed with bowel cancer, but an awful combination of an influx of covid cases and the NHS backlog meant that her treatment was delayed to such a point that she succumbed to the cancer and died.
I’m not particularly scared of death but the thought of being put in that situation due to factors out of my control absolutely terrified me. I cannot even fathom how folks going through similar scenarios are feeling, my heart goes out to them.
Copied from a prior post of mine to illustrate what would have been my Cancer Journey on the NHS
To put this into real terms, heres the differences in timelines I was quoted between NHS and the actual Private Timelines for my Testicular Cancer Diagnosis last year (Diagnosed on March 15th 2021) via my GP
Ultrasound
* NHS : 6-8 weeks
* Private : 48hrs
Ultrasound Results with an appointment with a Cancer Specialist
* NHS : 4-8 weeks after Ultrasound
* Private : 30mins after scan and a further follow up session in the next 48hrs
Orchidectomy Surgery
* NHS : 8-16 weeks after Ultrasound Results Consultation
* Private : Surgery would have happened within the next 72hrs, but I was required to isolate for 7 days due to COVID protocols prior to surgery
At this point, Chemotherapy Treatment is handled by the NHS. Through usage of Private Healthcare, I was able to have an Ultrasound, Consultation and Surgery within 3 weeks. On the NHS, I would have been waiting somewhere between 4-8 months (plus any further delays due to COVID and or bed shortages)
All in, the private medial portion of this journey cost 3,500GBP (covered by our health insurance)
In the space of 92 days I was able to undergo private treatment and be passed to the NHS to complete Chemotherapy. Its a horrendously unequal system, and not everyone will have a job that allows them to avail of private medical care. The political parties here really have no long term interest in solving the medical and health crisis. The trickle down effect from a Tory Govt is killing the NHS by design
Yep, Cancer killed my Dad in 2019 and it took 4 months to diagnose and he fell fast. It was a brain tumour and it was obvious he wasn’t ok but they took months. He was diagnosed in 2016.
My Mum had Cancer in 2018 and it took them 6!!! Months to diagnose and start treatment. She was given the all clear and started having pains about 2 months after, took them 3 months to even see her. She went in, Cancer and 3 months to live.
The Doctor made a fucking joke about if she had come in sooner they might have saved her life and smiled.
I could have killed him.
This is all a political choice. The Tories want to break the NHS, cause outrage and heartbreak (pathos over logos) and then provide their American health conglomerates as the saviour.
The healthcare situation the UK is in now is of course terrible but it hasn’t happened overnight. It was well underway by 2015, 2017 and 2019.
People were warned about it, repeatedly.
While of course the Tories are to blame so is anyone who voted Conservative or didn’t even turn out to vote (against the Conservatives) in each of those elections.
Well fuck me, a near complete shutdown of care services for every illness that isn’t covid for 18 months has resulted in a huge number of people left with late stage illnesses that could have easily been caught and treated had those services not been shut down?
Who could have possibly seen this coming? Apart from those multiple medical journals, countless health care professionals, the british heart foundation, cancer research uk, macmillan cancer support…the list goes on.
In other news, fire has been found to be hot and exposure to a large volume of H2O does indeed, make you wet.
I had a kiwi sized brain tumour taken out in a matter of weeks by the NHS. GP initially tried to pass it off as migraines, might not have been here if I hadn’t called 111. That was in 2018 though.
Conservatives need to be held accountable for murder. If the system won’t do it, we need to drag them into the streets and pass judgement (in Minecraft).
Yes – how is this news? This was predicted time and time again. And it applies to all kinds of cancer. Our stats have been stagnant for a while, and will probably get worse over the next decade.
You can all thank Lockdowns for this.
Not every death is equal.
The average death from Covid was 82. Locking down like we did and creating such a backlog has now put us in this situation where young mothers with cancer won’t see their children grow up.
Que the covid brigade to tell me why it was still the right thing to do…
Can someone please give me some advice? My dad has prostate cancer and it’s progressing very fast, he’s in lots of pain, but his GP and his specialist doctors are very slow to treat him. He’s not being treated at all. He’s been diagnosed with cancer since June 2021. What can I do? I have no one else that can help.
It’s kind of obvious when most of the cancer services were effectively shutdown for long periods of the last two years. Even when available the process of getting into the hospital was so convoluted and difficult.
This killed my father in law last year – he was diagnosed with cancer May 2020 and received zero treatment for 6 months …… and at that point it had spread far and wide. Died last August.
Well you all voted for a covid isolation policy, that’s what happens ..
Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions…
Various scientists, professional bodies and cancer charities have been warning people from day one of the lockdowns that this would happen. Why is everyone acting so outraged and surprised when they were told this would be the result.
If you believe it was a necessary evil than fine but stop the fucking gaslighting and stop pretending like you weren’t warned. You were warned, you were told.
“Covid covid covid” the tories will scream to the end of time, even tho all it did was exacerbate the problems THEY have caused with their tenure + brexit.
I love free health care, but at this point it’s getting ridiculous. When my dad collapsed last year, the ambulance took over 40 mins after we said he lost consciousness and wasn’t breathing and he didn’t make it. This backlog has meant my nan has slowly been getting worse and worse and not getting the help she needs. I can’t even get a GP appointment to look at a mole because all the surgeries near me are only open Monday to Friday 9-5, which is also my work hours.
I’m probably gonna end up paying to see a private dermatologist, the NHS has been slowly stripped bare, stretched thin and overworked over the years, now if you have something more serious than a cold it becomes a roll of the dice for how much help you actually manage to get.
Don’t worry, I’m sure the brexit dividend is on its way.
Just blame Boris & Co. Don’t blame the NHS, they can only function 100% if they have the staff, and with this government giving punitive pay rises, they are not going to get the staff. What happened to the £350 million, that we’d save by leaving the EU, and Boris saying it would be going into the NHS. No the Tories want people to go private, and get into more debt.
Forgive me for being flippant, but was this not the COVID trade off the country knew was coming but signed up for?!
The client journalists at the likes of the Torygraph are already (last night on Question Time) already blaming everything on the lockdown rules being too tight.
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Why the focus on mum’s? Do dad’s with cancer not matter? Is it any less heart-breaking having a dad who’s cancer is incurable? Sexist article headline.
Click bait title. Read article, it only mentions mums once, for an example.
Don’t worry, it’ll be fine once we start seeing the extra money for the NHS from Brexit. /s
Happened with my girlfriend’s dad. Went to Russia in December 2020 and felt unwell whilst out there, got tested and found to have bowel cancer. He decided to come home for treatment but NHS took so long organising their own tests and getting the Russian doctors report translated they didn’t start treatment until mid-March. Unfortunately the cancer progressed extensively and it will be a year since he died on the 9th of May. There’s a good chance that those 3 months wouldn’t have made much difference but it still fucking sucks.
Yep, recently been having patients with advanced diagnoses of cancers and neurodegenerative diseases.
The immense strain on primary care means these patients struggle to see their doctors. Despite this, we had 30 million GP appointments in March
The NHS is finished
Dear Me the Conservative Government is destroying our lives, the NHS,the Education system and all we can do is bicker among ourselves. We play into the hands of evil silently these right wing zealots are destroying U.K.
In July of 2020 I was falsely diagnosed with cancer and was in the process of going through the diagnostic procedures for the doctors to understand exactly what they were dealing with and how to treat it.
A few weeks beforehand I had caught a BBC news report about a woman who was diagnosed with bowel cancer, but an awful combination of an influx of covid cases and the NHS backlog meant that her treatment was delayed to such a point that she succumbed to the cancer and died.
I’m not particularly scared of death but the thought of being put in that situation due to factors out of my control absolutely terrified me. I cannot even fathom how folks going through similar scenarios are feeling, my heart goes out to them.
Copied from a prior post of mine to illustrate what would have been my Cancer Journey on the NHS
To put this into real terms, heres the differences in timelines I was quoted between NHS and the actual Private Timelines for my Testicular Cancer Diagnosis last year (Diagnosed on March 15th 2021) via my GP
Ultrasound
* NHS : 6-8 weeks
* Private : 48hrs
Ultrasound Results with an appointment with a Cancer Specialist
* NHS : 4-8 weeks after Ultrasound
* Private : 30mins after scan and a further follow up session in the next 48hrs
Orchidectomy Surgery
* NHS : 8-16 weeks after Ultrasound Results Consultation
* Private : Surgery would have happened within the next 72hrs, but I was required to isolate for 7 days due to COVID protocols prior to surgery
At this point, Chemotherapy Treatment is handled by the NHS. Through usage of Private Healthcare, I was able to have an Ultrasound, Consultation and Surgery within 3 weeks. On the NHS, I would have been waiting somewhere between 4-8 months (plus any further delays due to COVID and or bed shortages)
All in, the private medial portion of this journey cost 3,500GBP (covered by our health insurance)
In the space of 92 days I was able to undergo private treatment and be passed to the NHS to complete Chemotherapy. Its a horrendously unequal system, and not everyone will have a job that allows them to avail of private medical care. The political parties here really have no long term interest in solving the medical and health crisis. The trickle down effect from a Tory Govt is killing the NHS by design
Yep, Cancer killed my Dad in 2019 and it took 4 months to diagnose and he fell fast. It was a brain tumour and it was obvious he wasn’t ok but they took months. He was diagnosed in 2016.
My Mum had Cancer in 2018 and it took them 6!!! Months to diagnose and start treatment. She was given the all clear and started having pains about 2 months after, took them 3 months to even see her. She went in, Cancer and 3 months to live.
The Doctor made a fucking joke about if she had come in sooner they might have saved her life and smiled.
I could have killed him.
This is all a political choice. The Tories want to break the NHS, cause outrage and heartbreak (pathos over logos) and then provide their American health conglomerates as the saviour.
The healthcare situation the UK is in now is of course terrible but it hasn’t happened overnight. It was well underway by 2015, 2017 and 2019.
People were warned about it, repeatedly.
While of course the Tories are to blame so is anyone who voted Conservative or didn’t even turn out to vote (against the Conservatives) in each of those elections.
Well fuck me, a near complete shutdown of care services for every illness that isn’t covid for 18 months has resulted in a huge number of people left with late stage illnesses that could have easily been caught and treated had those services not been shut down?
Who could have possibly seen this coming? Apart from those multiple medical journals, countless health care professionals, the british heart foundation, cancer research uk, macmillan cancer support…the list goes on.
In other news, fire has been found to be hot and exposure to a large volume of H2O does indeed, make you wet.
I had a kiwi sized brain tumour taken out in a matter of weeks by the NHS. GP initially tried to pass it off as migraines, might not have been here if I hadn’t called 111. That was in 2018 though.
Conservatives need to be held accountable for murder. If the system won’t do it, we need to drag them into the streets and pass judgement (in Minecraft).
Yes – how is this news? This was predicted time and time again. And it applies to all kinds of cancer. Our stats have been stagnant for a while, and will probably get worse over the next decade.
You can all thank Lockdowns for this.
Not every death is equal.
The average death from Covid was 82. Locking down like we did and creating such a backlog has now put us in this situation where young mothers with cancer won’t see their children grow up.
Que the covid brigade to tell me why it was still the right thing to do…
Can someone please give me some advice? My dad has prostate cancer and it’s progressing very fast, he’s in lots of pain, but his GP and his specialist doctors are very slow to treat him. He’s not being treated at all. He’s been diagnosed with cancer since June 2021. What can I do? I have no one else that can help.
It’s kind of obvious when most of the cancer services were effectively shutdown for long periods of the last two years. Even when available the process of getting into the hospital was so convoluted and difficult.
This killed my father in law last year – he was diagnosed with cancer May 2020 and received zero treatment for 6 months …… and at that point it had spread far and wide. Died last August.
Well you all voted for a covid isolation policy, that’s what happens ..
Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions…
Various scientists, professional bodies and cancer charities have been warning people from day one of the lockdowns that this would happen. Why is everyone acting so outraged and surprised when they were told this would be the result.
If you believe it was a necessary evil than fine but stop the fucking gaslighting and stop pretending like you weren’t warned. You were warned, you were told.
“Covid covid covid” the tories will scream to the end of time, even tho all it did was exacerbate the problems THEY have caused with their tenure + brexit.
I love free health care, but at this point it’s getting ridiculous. When my dad collapsed last year, the ambulance took over 40 mins after we said he lost consciousness and wasn’t breathing and he didn’t make it. This backlog has meant my nan has slowly been getting worse and worse and not getting the help she needs. I can’t even get a GP appointment to look at a mole because all the surgeries near me are only open Monday to Friday 9-5, which is also my work hours.
I’m probably gonna end up paying to see a private dermatologist, the NHS has been slowly stripped bare, stretched thin and overworked over the years, now if you have something more serious than a cold it becomes a roll of the dice for how much help you actually manage to get.
Don’t worry, I’m sure the brexit dividend is on its way.
Just blame Boris & Co. Don’t blame the NHS, they can only function 100% if they have the staff, and with this government giving punitive pay rises, they are not going to get the staff. What happened to the £350 million, that we’d save by leaving the EU, and Boris saying it would be going into the NHS. No the Tories want people to go private, and get into more debt.
Forgive me for being flippant, but was this not the COVID trade off the country knew was coming but signed up for?!
The client journalists at the likes of the Torygraph are already (last night on Question Time) already blaming everything on the lockdown rules being too tight.