Ana (fictitious name because it prefers to keep anonymity) is a Cordoba who is 49 years old and breast cancer on both breasts. But the confirmation of that diagnosis has come to him three and a half months after becoming a mammogram that, as he has known now, already had indications that he could have a malignant tumor. She has been reflected in the cases that have just been known from women who have suffered delays in the diagnosis and treatment of their breast cancer in Andalusia, where the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) admits “errors” and figure in Some 2,000 women who now have doubtful results in their evidence without knowing and pending review.
Ana's case began when, due to her age, she was called to make a mammogram within the screening program for the early detection of breast cancer. The test was done on May 14, 2025 at the Carlos Castilla del Pino Specialties Center, of the Andalusian Public Health Service. And at that time, after doing the mammogram, they explained that “if something bad came out, they warned me soon, in about 15 days, and if nothing happened, they could take longer,” he tells about his experience to his experience Cordapolis.
Those fifteen days passed and had no news. The month of May ended, June also, July and arrived August. “On August 7 they called me on the phone, saying that they had to do some complementary tests.” Ana says that they did not explain much more, beyond telling her that they were necessary and that “there was something to look at.”
The appointment for these new tests was on August 20. But, before and already on alert she and her husband, they searched for in the medical history that each SAS patient has Clicks and where the different tests and reports of the patient are turned, which can be consulted. Seeing the mammograms and the report on them, they verified that “there appeared a result of the possibility of malignant tumor,” says Ana. “In the tests it looked perfectly, in some remarked squares.” “It was that there was a high possibility of 77% that it was cancer,” he says without understanding how that did not produce an alert in the system at that time.
And, despite the fact that the mammography had been made on May 14, “the report that accompanied them had a date of August 6, as if they had not seen it until that day. It was the day before they called me to let me know that I had to do the complementary tests.”
New tests and cancer confirmation
Indeed, these new tests were held on August 20, already at the Provincial Hospital of Córdoba. A new contrast mammogram and, at the moment, a complementary ultrasound. “They saw that I had a mass or nodule on both breasts.” The next day, August 21, they had a resonance and, also that day, “they directly made a biopsy in one of the breasts with a needle.” Ana reports that she could hear how the toilets said they had run out of more needles and, in fact, they summoned her to do the biopsy in the other chest days later, on August 25.
In those days, among the different tests, Ana remembers that he asked the professionals who attended her how it was possible that with the mammogram made since May 14 they would not have seen suspicion results until almost three months later. “And they told me there were more women in that situation.”
The confirmation of Ana's diagnosis came on August 28. “They called me to go to the Provincial Hospital. And there they told me that, although there were many data to analyze, there was no doubt that it was a malignant tumor. On both breasts.”
“From one mammogram to another, you see how it has grown”
“They have told me that they are small, that my life is not risking, but there is one of the tumors, that of the left chest, which is spreading. In fact, from May's mammogram to the mammography of August he had grown,” he says about the explanations they have given him.
With cancer already confirmed in both breasts, the obstacle career for this woman continues. On September 5 they called her from the Provincial Hospital to communicate that they must operate it first and that, after a month or a month and a half, professionals will see the treatment: Safe Radiology and Chemotherapy will already be seen. ”
This Thursday, October 2 Ana has just passed the preoperative tests. And when do they operate it? “No idea, they will call me and that the normal being evil cancer can be two months. But I don't know when they will operate.”
While recalling the entire journey it carries, Ana cannot stop remembering that her grandmother died of breast cancer. And what happened to her now with the delay in her diagnosis pushes her to tell her testimony, “so that this does not happen again, so that they put the means enough,” he claims.
Ana makes it clear that she is grateful for the treatment of the professionals who have attended it, directs her gaze to the system failures and the probable lack of personnel and means that may have led to this situation. A situation that extends without a date still for the operation, while suffering an distressing wait: “I have anxiety, I am practically sleeping, very nervous and trying not to fall into a depression,” he says. “The later this, much more aggressive the surgery will be, much harder will be the recovery.”