August 2023

‘My husband thought I was dying’ - how Rapid Diagnosis Clinic helped grandmother beat cancer.

A grandmother’s family thought she was going to die when her weight dropped by almost 25 per cent in just two months. However, her GP referred her to Glan Clwyd Hospital’s Rapid Diagnosis Clinic. It discovered she had kidney cancer and then set out her treatment programme within nine days.

Happily, Jean Machin, a retired medical secretary from Rhuddlan, had her cancerous kidney removed five weeks after visiting the clinic.