Founder Ali Stunt said that 80% of patients in Britain are not eligible for surgery at diagnosis because GPs do not recognise the symptoms, and it takes too long for patients to have a scan.
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And from diagnosis to surgery, it will be just over a month.
It will recommend that the Oxford children's cardiac unit stops doing surgery, but continues to offer diagnosis and pre- and post-operation care.
The diagnosis for his recovery from knee surgery is a mere six weeks.
Here was a woman with scruples less developed than her own, someone who had chosen to be not frightened but entertained by her new neighborhood, someone who soldiered on with her elective surgery even when her best friend got a diagnosis of cancer.
Silberman got her breast cancer diagnosis in 2009 and underwent treatment and surgery, but the cancer spread to her liver.
We want to see testing and diagnosis within two weeks of someone walking into their GP surgery.
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When, nine months after diagnosis, Jobs finally abandoned alternative treatment and agreed to surgery, his cancer had spread to the liver, dramatically reducing his survival chances.
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And even with a cancer diagnosis, it's not clear that aggressive treatments such as surgery or radiation are always helpful.
The Scottish government guarantees that cancer patients will be treated within 31 days of diagnosis, but this guarantee only covers the period until a patient has had surgery.
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