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'My mum waited 14 months for cancer results - patients deserve better'

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Jackie Head's mother, Rosemary , had lung cancer four years ago , aged 79 .

Her father, who also had the disease, died from it in 2012 , died in 2012 .

She was diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent surgery to remove one of the lobes of the lungs.

But a follow-up scan revealed abnormalities in her lungs and she waited four months before receiving results.

She finally had a full body scan in late July and was told cancer had not grown.

Rosemary will need another follow-up scan in six months .

Macmillan Cancer Support welcomes the new Government 's recognition of the NHS is broken.

UK survival rates are as much as 25 years behind other countries, experts say.

A funded, long-term and crucially cross-government approach could revolutionise how we treat cancer, they say.

VR Score

66

Informative language

64

Neutral language

20

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

45

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not offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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