Hi dolphin99 and a warm welcome to Cancer Chat, 

We are delighted to welcome you to our forum even if you don't have a diagnosis yet and it's lovely to have another member from beautiful Northern Ireland! I am sorry to hear you are facing such long waiting lists and I can completely understand your frustration being in your sixth week on a red flag list - it does sound like a really long time to have to wait. 

You might be interested to read the information we have on our website on cancer waiting times and the guidelines and referral pathways in Northern Ireland. We also have in-depth information on basal cell carcinoma which I hope you will find useful. 

I hope that you will hear from other members from Northern Ireland who have faced similar waiting times and that they will come and share their experience with you. It will also be interesting to hear from others who are in other parts of the UK and who went through a similar process for suspected basal cell carcinoma. 

As you say, any wait feels too long but 74 weeks really is a long time and I hope that you will manage to be seen a lot quicker than that. 

Best wishes, 

Lucie, Cancer Chat Moderator

Thanks for your lovely warm welcome, Lucie, and very helpful links. That's really kind of you and greatly appreciated. I do apologise for the ambiguity of my post. I'm not on the Urgent list (as you say, it's really long). I'm actually on the Red Flag list which, as far as I understand, is reserved for suspected squamous cell carcinoma or melanoma (because of the risk of spreading). My referring GP warned me I was facing a six week wait and I therefore hope to get an appointment soon. Thanks once again.