Skin cancer specialists concerned about wait time for results
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As we head into summer, skin cancer specialists say lives are being put at risk because of delays getting results back from some laboratories, with people waiting up to eight weeks to hear if they have melanoma.
One Auckland community laboratory has been so slow its international standard of competence has been suspended and health agency Te Whatu Ora has been forced to apologise to patients.
Sally Wenley reports.