A cancer patient had to wait nearly a year to begin treatment.
And nearly one in five of cancer patients in Dumfries and Galloway weren’t able to start treatment within two months.
The latest figures from Public Health Scotland showed all of the country’s health boards, including NHS Dumfries and Galloway, failed to meet a Scottish Government target for 95 per cent of patients to start receiving treatment within 62 days of being referred with an urgent suspicion of cancer.
