She wasn’t told she has cancer. She says that could have been a ‘death sentence’ – CBC
Experts say case exposes cracks that remain in N.S. health-care system
Mar 17, 2025
Five weeks after Cathy Croskery’s right breast was biopsied for suspected cancer, she still hadn’t received the results.
She figured that was good news. It wasn’t.
The 58-year-old mother and wife eventually discovered she has invasive carcinoma, but had to track down that diagnosis herself.
Croskery doesn’t have a family doctor. She said that led to barriers getting into the system and a breakdown in communication in receiving test results that would ultimately land her in an operating room for a lumpectomy days after finally receiving them.
“If I had kept going, ‘No news is good news,’ where would I be?” said Croskery, who lives in Middle Sackville, N.S., but is originally from Burlington, Ont.
“That’s a death sentence for a lot of people.”
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cancer-diagnosis-track-down-nova-scotia-1.7477402
