A woman from Swansea has said she had to wait more than 140 days to start cancer treatment, as latest figures show almost half of cancer patients in Wales are not being treated quickly enough. Ailsa Guard, 46, was given the devastating diagnosis she had metastatic breast cancer in February last year.
She first started to feel unwell after she noticed a lump in her armpit in November 2021. She claims there has been "delays and disruptions at every stage" of her treatment and she has "had to fight" for her care. At one point she went five months "with not a single action being taken to treat the cancer", Ailsa said.
The former project manager, of Hafod, claims the delays lasted until June 28 last year, which is when she started chemotherapy. Since then, she said her treatment has been "straightforward" and she has had a mastectomy and radiotherapy. But she said there were months of delays before this that had left her in an "endless cycle of worry".
