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Surrey toddler battling brain tumour is just 18 months old and family needs support
Sky Barton developed complications such as meningitis and sepsis after a major operation
Sky with parents Emily and Benedict Barton (Image: Benedict Barton)
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Sky Barton was just 16 months old when she was diagnosed with three brain tumours and developed complications such as meningitis and sepsis after a major operation.
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SIR – I fear that my cousin, Professor Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England (Letters, February 19), is being disingenuous when he implies that NHS cancer treatment has been satisfactory during the pandemic.
The statistics he cites do not reflect the misery that thousands of patients have suffered as a result of their treatments being postponed. I should know. My own treatment for prostate cancer was delayed by six months and wasn’t completed until nine months after diagnosis.
The specialist hospital that provided my care was largely mothballed. Staff later told me they had spent months twiddling their thumbs, as they had not been needed to look after Covid-19 patients. I’m assured that my prognosis will not be affected by the delay – but many people’s will be.