Kelly Smith, 31, Died Weeks After Her Chemotherapy Was Cancelled Due to Lockdown
Warnings of lockdown cancer delays went unheeded, experts have said, as it emerged 10,000 NHS patients have been waiting for treatment for more than three months. The Telegraph has more.
Leading oncologists raised fears “tens of thousands” of patients may die needlessly, because they are not being seen quickly enough.
Leaked figures show a doubling in the number of people waiting at least 104 days to start treatment in the 12 months ending in June.
The measure is seen as a critical marker because it is defined as a “backstop waiting time, beyond which patients should be specifically reviewed for potential harm”.
Before the pandemic, health chiefs said there should be “zero tolerance” of such deadly delays.
On Wednesday night Prof Karol Sikora, a leading oncologist, said he had repeatedly urged the Government to address the cancer risks posed by lockdown.
Messages to “Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives” meant untold numbers of patients did not come forward to alert medics to symptoms, for fear of being a burden, he said.
Others had vital checks like mammograms cancelled, meaning disease was spotted far later, when less treatable, while many of those who were diagnosed as services focused on Covid suffered treatment delays.
Craig Russell, 53, lost his 31-year-old daughter, Kelly Smith, to bowel cancer in June 2020 after her chemotherapy was paused due to Covid.
Mr Russell, who lives in Macclesfield, Cheshire, said: “Kelly was diagnosed in 2017 and it was stage 4. It took nine months to get a diagnosis.”
Her chemotherapy, which she was having every two weeks, was paused in March 2020 and she was told to self-isolate. She died in June 2020.
Describing the days after Ms. Smith was told about her diagnosis, Mr. Russell said: “When she went home and thought about it, the implications started to dawn on her. The chemotherapy was holding the cancer back and without it, it was expected that the cancer would start to spread quite rapidly. Which it did. She was very scared, confused, and quite angry.
“She was having blood tests every two weeks, but results that usually come in a day or two were taking seven or eight days. Six weeks after she was told to self-isolate, they gave her two to four weeks to live. She’d always responded well to chemotherapy. She may have got 12 months left to live.”
Ms. Smith left behind an eight-year-old son.
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One observation I’ve made since the whole fiasco kicked off is how none of the bad things, caused by the restrictions or the injection adverse effects, ever seem to affect politicians and other authority figures responsible for this entire shitfest. Its the sheer unfairness of it all and it feels like they are moving in a parallel universe and are untouchable. How many politicians have been killed or disabled by the jabs they told us all were necessary? How many of them lost their livelihoods due to lockdowns or not getting jabbed? All the bad things that are reported only ever seem to affect regular citizens. Perhaps if those in authority had a loved one harmed as a result of their decision-making and regulations fundamental things might change in the future. But they and their’s seem to rise above any ill-effects of the public health debacle everybody else is impacted by. Until the universe decides to level the playing field and dole out some karma and these goons start losing loved ones or acquire jab injuries or even deaths then they will never ever know what it is to suffer in any way, therefore they will continue to look at… Read more »
Mogs, there is no mismanagement. The whole story so far is playing out as planned.
Why have no leading politicians, authority figures been affected? They bloody certainly didn’t take any jabs, if they got a bit poorly you can bet the treatment was Ivermectin.
People are dying, well being killed, because that is what the Davos Deviants have ordered for us. This fight has nothing to do with a return to sanity.
We are fighting for our lives. The whole of humanity.
NHS cowards.
Hang your heads in shame.
I lost a colleague in February and my best man in March.
Both told they had stage four cancer when they were eventually seen by a GP with a face to face appointment.
Both initially fobbed off by phone with ‘long-Covid’.
My best man’s father died of the same bowel cancer at the same age of 50. Why this wasn’t flagged as worthy of further investigation by his GP, I will never know.
The rotten, failed, over-bureaucratic NHS system needs to be dismantled and replaced by an employer / employee funded health insurance model as they successfully run in Germany.
Who could possibly have predicted this?!
Wait, us lot here did.
I predicted the opposite. I predicted deaths from lack of medical treatment will more or less balance out with the number of people healthcare professionals kill by treating them.
I still think there is little evidence so far to contradict my prediction. (I think we can all agree that the anecdotal story of one suspended cancer treatment doesn’t prove a significant rise in overall mortality.)
There is a blind spot we just can’t eliminate which is that we can never really know and therefore quantify those cases in which people are saved by not being treated for something.
But ultimately if massive delays in screenings and people’s inability to get doctors’ appointments don’t result in a clear increase in deaths, then it would suggest there is something to what I’m suggesting.
By 2020 I was reading stats on something like 250k to 500k missed cancer screenings throughout Europe.
There is no way I’m going to accept that this was unpredictable.
When people say “if it saves a life” what they really mean is “if it saves my life”, they don’t care as much about others as they claim.
The mistake is to expect too much of the NHS or any healthcare service for that matter.
Cancer is a thing. In fact the second biggest cause of death. That’s life. Failure to cure a cancer isn’t failure.
What we have to do is be much more realistic about what healthcare services can accomplish, especially state run ones.
We definitely need to stop chucking money into the NHS in the hope that more money will result in more people being “saved”. The NHS needs to be scaled back and people can either take more responsibility for taking care of themselves or face an earlier death. Which may happen anyway because some of us just get a bad hand with our gene pool. To expect the state to take responsibility for making right the negative consequences of our defective genes is mental.
When we get to the end of the road, we get to the end of the road.
Ok, i’m ready for the down votes. Let’s go.
If you were right then cancer outcomes would be equivalent in different countries. They are not. The UK lags behind many European countries for cancer outcomes. This suggests that the NHS is less good at treating cancer than the health services of other countries. It is not just a matter of throwing money at the problem, there are doubtless other things we can learn from other health services, but shrugging your shoulders and just blithely accepting that you are going to die of something is a bit defeatist, is it not? Now if you were to suggest that we should spend more effort in preventing the causes of cancer, many of which come down to lifestyle, then I might agree with you.
Now if you were to suggest that we should spend more effort in preventing the causes of cancer, many of which come down to lifestyle, then I might agree with you. I’m definitely suggesting that. But I’m also suggesting a lot more than that. Accepting that the healthcare system doesn’t extend life overall for the population, if true, isn’t shrugging one’s shoulders. It would be facing reality, which is actually the first step to the opposite of shrugging one’s shoulders. If it were true and we accepted it then we could spend more resources and energy on things that either do extend life or improve the quality of life while we have it. I fully accept the idea that doctors do more harm than good is a hypothesis. But really so is the opposite. The accepted wisdom that doctors overall do good is based on some clear successes of the medical profession and the pharma industry. Doctors do save people’s lives and fix people up when they are badly injured. Anti-biotics are almost miraculous. Pain killers make illness much more manageable. Child birth is now almost 100% safe thanks to doctors. Beyond that, I’m not so sure they do much… Read more »
I would suggest that the safety of childbirth is as much to do with midwives as it is for doctors. For most cases there is no doctor present and the birth is midwife led, and this has been the case for decades. Unless there’s a Caesarean section required it’s unlikely that an obstetrician will be present, and I can imagine that in some cases advanced midwives could perform the procedure.
Sadly, however, most of the recent tragedies at maternity units have been in midwife led units where doctors have been actively banned from being involved. The results of this ‘strategy’ have been the deaths of many babies and mothers.
Which lifestyles are risk factors for ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, testicular cancer, bowel cancer, pancreatic cancer? Lung cancer and throat cancer are linked to smoking, but not everyone who smokes develops either. Occupational hazards can also precipitate different cancers. Skin cancer is associated with sun burn.
Bowel cancer screening is only offered to 65+, but if caught early enough is treatable.
Pancreatic cancer is usually not identified until it’s too late unfortunately.
I normally agree with you Stewart but not on this.
Ten months ago a good friend murdered – 24 hours after being boosted.
A cousin currently being treated for prostate cancer.
A boozing colleague will be dead by end of September – bowel cancer.
A volunteer colleague – his wife under treatment for breast cancer.
A second cousin’s husband dead within three months of a cancer diagnosis.
A volunteer colleague dead within three months of a cancer diagnosis.
A sister treated and fortunately recovering from a tumour.
So I don’t need anybody telling me that this is ‘coincidence.’ The evidence is there.
All plugged with the ‘juice.’
And if I don’t here of another half dozen by Christmas I will be amazed.
The plan is Depopulation and it is HAPPENING.
Oh, I am very much of the opinion that these jabs are causing much harm, probably creating or accelerating cancers. So in that we agree completely.
In fact, more generally, as I’ve written in a couple of posts today, I think the covid jabs are just one more instance of the medical profession and industry doing more harm than good.
I just wouldn’t expect the NHS or the medical industry more generally to solve the problems they’ve created by jabbing everyone. They’ll probably just make it worse.
(The lady in the story, if I’ve understood it correctly, doesn’t fall into the category of jab induced cancers. She developed hers before the whole covid hysteria.)
I do think that sometimes the medical profession tries to extend life without any thought for the quality of that life lived.
It is one thing to offer hope but not at the expense of quality of time gained.
As my old Dad used to say ‘when it’s time to hand in your dinner ticket’ it will be taken.
I am talking the about the pre-convid fiasco times.
Cancer is an obvious example of late diagnoses, but there other conditions such as Alzheimer’s or other dementias that although incurable can have treatment to delay the effects that may have progressed before a diagnosis, particularly since isolation during lockdown would have exacerbated the condition. Likewise mental health conditions not being diagnosed and treated, possibly being too late.
These deaths don’t matter to the evil people who created the Plandemic. Neither do the “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” or “Unexplained” deaths.
If they haven’t fully achieved their aims yet, they have certainly advanced them. And that’s all that matters to them.
There is a book written by Atul Gwande about our mortality. Read it. If people were lucky enough to go into remission, the experimental biologicals have certainly ensured their cancers have returned with a vengeance. I now know three women with reoccurrence of their breast cancer. Two have already died. All three triple vaxxed.