'I had to be pushy to get my cancer diagnosis': The devastating impact of Covid-19 delays
An analysis by Cancer Research UK has found that more than 350,000 people have not been urgently referred for a cancer check who should have been, and that one in three people living with cancer have faced delays to diagnosis or treatment.
Toria Pickering, 31, from Worcestershire, discovered a lump in her abdomen just before the country went into its first lockdown. Despite the doctors believing at the time it was a benign tumour, Toria soon started feeling so much pain that she was admitted into A&E for emergency surgery to remove it.
Having heard nothing from the hospital for another five weeks, she decided to telephone the hospital only to be told she had cancer. With no more immediate information on what type of cancer she was living with or which treatment would be available amid a pandemic, the mother-of-two feared she would never see her children go to school.
Toria shares her full story in the video above, which echoes the devastating impact of delays to cancer care during the pandemic.
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