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Some cancer patients have been forced to go private to get treatment within recommended time frames, with one woman having to spend her house deposit to get radiation therapy. Another woman told Checkpoint, she had to wait four months for a scan after finding a suspcious lump in her arm pit that eventually grew to the size of a tennis ball before she was seen. Earlier this week it was revealed a man with a history of melanoma, now has terminal cancer after an unacceptable delay in getting an MRI despite being refered by a specialist. He was a patient in Te Whatu Ora southern in 2021-2022 and should have got the scan within 31 days but it wasnt done for 20 weeks; by then the cancer had spread to his spine. Aucklander Allison Kennedy took matters into her own hands last year after she was still waiting for a mammogram five weeks after her GP refered her for a suspicious lump that turned out to be cancer. Allison speaks to Lisa Owen. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/de

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