Hi Sussexgirl82 I wanted to wish you luck today with your appointment.  I was given the results of cancer diagnosis over the telephone so there doesn't seem to be any logical way that they tell you.  Good luck and fingers crossed for today.

Hi,

That really is appalling and is very much counter to best practice guidelines which take into account the patient’s wellbeing. 

I feel so cross on your behalf. 

Best wishes
Dave

Hi Dave,  thank you.  Not only did they tell me it was cancer but stage 4 cancer and it is incurable.  I feel let down by doctors as I was told the two tumors in my pelvis were benign firstly and they were just left and now it has spread.  Hope you are doing okay.

Lee

Hi Lee,

That is awful - it’s bad enough receiving that news face to face with a surgeon and a cancer nurse to answer your questions. Over the phone is a blatant breach of best practice - perhaps understandable at the height of Covid.

You’d be in your rights to make a formal complain in writing to their Medical Director. He/she would pass it onto PALS but if you send it to PALS first, the Director may never see it. . 

I was diagnosed as incurable at stage 4 in 2013, but unexpectedly I went into remission a couple of years after chemo. No-one can explain how that happened. I keep expecting it to come back but so far it hasn’t.

Good luck.
Dave

Hi Lee,

That is awful - it’s bad enough receiving that news face to face with a surgeon and a cancer nurse to answer your questions. Over the phone is a blatant breach of best practice - perhaps understandable at the height of Covid.

You’d be in your rights to make a formal complain in writing to their Medical Director. He/she would pass it onto PALS but if you send it to PALS first, the Director may never see it. . 

I was diagnosed as incurable at stage 4 in 2013, but unexpectedly I went into remission a couple of years after chemo. No-one can explain how that happened. I keep expecting it to come back but so far it hasn’t.

Good luck.
Dave