Montreal woman worries vital cancer surgery could be cancelled ‘at the drop of a dime’
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Anne Aubie said she is terrified her breast cancer may have spread because she can't get timely treatment due to recent strikes by health-care workers.
Anne Aubie is scheduled to undergo surgery for breast cancer next week. The Montreal-area woman was first diagnosed in January of this year.
“I feel wonderful,” she told Global News about finally getting a date for her Dec. 22 surgery. “But,” she added, “I know that it can be cancelled at the drop of a dime.”
Her fear stems from her treatment having already been delayed following recent strikes by health-care workers.
Aubie’s cancer journey has been filled with constant worry, made worse by what she says is a broken health system.
From the very beginning, Aubie said she was facing delays.
“When I first went to get my mammogram, I wasn’t getting the results quick enough from the hospital,” she said. “So I went to a private clinic and I paid a lot of money to have the mammogram and the biopsies done.”
Aubie started chemotherapy in May and on Sept. 15, her doctor gave her the good news: “No more chemo!”
Her lump, she was told, had shrunk significantly, readying the path for surgery in four to six weeks to remove the tumour and several lymph nodes.
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