Canada

Five weeks after Cathy Croskery's right breast was biopsied for suspected cancer, she still hadn't received the results.

She figured that was good news. It wasn't.

The 58-year-old mother and wife eventually discovered she has invasive carcinoma, but had to track down that diagnosis herself.

Croskery doesn't have a family doctor. She said that led to barriers getting into the system and a breakdown in communication in receiving test results that would ultimately land her in an operating room for a lumpectomy days after finally receiving them.