'I feel like they dropped the ball and rolled the dice with my life': B.C. woman says cancer spread after lengthy wait for chemo
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A Vancouver Island woman who says her cancer spread while she waited month after month for chemotherapy is calling on the province to do better for patients like herself.
A Vancouver Island woman who says her cancer spread while she waited month after month for chemotherapy is calling on the province to do better for patients like herself.
Loni Atwood, 43, was enjoying her life with her two sons and her work as a riding instructor and trainer when she received devastating news in April of last year.
On a visit to the emergency room at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, she learned she had an extremely aggressive and rare adrenal cancer.
She would undergo surgery at Vancouver General Hospital the following month.
“The care plan going up to surgery was…that there was going to be a preventative chemo plan and I would be starting it immediately after surgery,’ she said in an interview with CTV News.
But after surgery, she waited for a call from BC Cancer to start chemotherapy.
She said it would take ten months just to see an oncologist.
