Cancer patients in B.C. waiting months rather than weeks for treatment

Courtney Dickson · CBC News · Dr. Kim Nguyen Chi, a medical oncologist and head of B.C. Cancer, said patients are already impatient as they grapple with their cancer diagnosis.

“Waiting even a day is challenging for people,” he told On the Island host Gregor Craigie.

“From a patient perspective, they’ve been waiting longer than that, right? They’ve had symptoms before that, they’ve had tests before that and so on. So the entire cancer journey can be very difficult as they proceed through the diagnosis and treatment.”

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