Late diagnosis: oncologist denounces that cancer route in Costa Rica is a dead end maze

Adrián Guzmán Ramírez, oncologist at Max Peralta Hospital in Cartago, sees between 80 and 100 cancer patients every week. He asked them what was the most difficult part of their process. All the answers coincided: the long and confusing path they had to go through to reach the diagnosis. “They told me that once in the hospital everything was defined, but that what they went through to reach the diagnosis was the worst. It’s a maze for many,” he …