Petition · past parliament
Create a system for doctors to refer patients with two or more cancer symptom.
Closed
86 signatures
What the petition asks
Mum presented many cancer symptoms over two years each treated individually, and the lump diagnosed as a cyst. She actually had advanced ovarian cancer. If she had been tested on symptoms being first presented she would have had a better chance of survival.
Professor Graham Neale found 15% misdiagnosed as minor ailments.
Early diagnosis of ovarian cancer has a survival rate of 90% rather than 5% for advanced stages of the disease and 70% compared to 14% in lung cancer.
Diagnostic routes range between 12 and 38% of cancer cases diagnosed by Doctor referrals between 3% and 58% are diagnosed through hospital admissions. The majority presented at hospital and were far more advanced. One year survival rates were lower for those presenting at hospital.
Early diagnosis of ovarian cancer has a survival rate of 90% rather than 5% for advanced stages of the disease and 70% compared to 14% in lung cancer.
Diagnostic routes range between 12 and 38% of cancer cases diagnosed by Doctor referrals between 3% and 58% are diagnosed through hospital admissions. The majority presented at hospital and were far more advanced. One year survival rates were lower for those presenting at hospital.
Timeline
| 12 Apr 2016 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 12 Oct 2016 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
86
Status
Closed
Opened
12 Apr 2016
Closed
12 Oct 2016
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