The wife of a cancer patient has questioned why a state of the art facility has to send tests to the opposite end of the country.
Julie Summers has questioned why Clatterbridge Cancer Centre send its immunotherapy tests to a laboratory in London after her husband Alan had to wait five weeks for his results. Alan, 63, has recently been diagnosed with secondary lung cancer after previously being treated for oesophageal cancer in 2019.
Alan's secondary lung cancer is non-curative and the couple, from Widnes, told the ECHO they are resigned to the fact Alan "will pass away relatively soon". But Julie, 65, questioned why the cancer facility, which was only completed in 2020, does not have the facilities to test for immunotherapy markers.
