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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Vivienne Aitken

'I've waited five months for chemotherapy, now I'm scared my cancer has spread'

A woman who waited five months for cancer treatment to begin is now facing a waiting game to see how long she will survive.

From the decision to treat cancer to treatment beginning should take no more than 31 days but Helen Storrie has waited five times that target.

Helen, 69, from Motherwell, has been told the cancer is incurable but her oncologist is unwilling to tell her how much time she has until she has her first three sessions of chemotherapy, which could slow the spread.

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