Patient with cancer had to wait hours in the freezing cold, in a surgical gown, at Altnagelvin Hospital

Feb 07, 2013, 10:16 AM

The shock of a cancer diagnosis is a traumatic experience at the best of times. But for Marlene Barr it was made even worse as she had to endure tests in a freezing cold clinic. Marlene was told she had breast cancer in the middle of last month at the Breast Screening Unit at Altnagelvin Hospital. She had to wear her coat over a surgical gown for four hours. Then a week later she had to go endure the same conditions when she was told her cancer was terminal. Marlene's daughter Ruth shares her story…#bbcnolan