MIL OSI – Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement
Headline: Cancer – the cost of a life: Survivor thanks wife for pressure to go private
The Herald investigates controversies in cancer testing and treatment and reports on the moving stories of people afflicted with cancer. The second part in the five-part series health reporter Martin Johnston turns his attention to bowel cancer.
Ivan Burrowes has his wife Sue to thank for making him go private for a cancer check when his local public hospital said he would have to wait two years longer than usual.
Part-funded by insurance, he had a colonoscopy at a private Nelson hospital in April and although he had not been experiencing any symptoms, a bowel tumour was found – his second. It was removed at the city’s public hospital. Luckily, the cancer had not spread. Read the full story here.
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