Hello,
I have posted on here prior about my mum's cancer. She currently has stage 3 locally advanced triple negative breast cancer with a wound.
We've been undergoing chemotherapy for the last 8 months in which time the tumor has gone from the size of a watermelon to the size of a small orange. The exterior wound has also showed signs of shrinking.
What my concern is really is in relation to surgery. As we have done more than the average amount of chemotherapy, tumour is in an operable state, the hospital have absolutely no plans whatsoever to do surgery yet. We had one appointment with a surgeon (after us requesting several times) only to be given false hope, poo pooed by the surgeon and "yeah maybe one day" type of attitude, even though it's operable. I feel this lackluster attitude is compromising my mum's treatment and overall health due to the fact that she's had so much chemotherapy her body can't take much more - it's time for surgery. Lackluster attitude in Clatterbridge Liverpool so far has been a reoccurring theme and the communication between themselves is something I've never seen before. They did at one point put her on the wrong chemo in which time her cancer gained ground. We had to request the correct chemo for them to stop this.
I am unsure what to do at this point, we are desperate for them to just get the surgery done but I feel we are dealing with dismissal and negligence. I am genuinely thinking about getting a solicitor involved, but is this really what it must take for them to finally do the surgery? Any advice would be highly appreciated.
