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Life presents enough challenges with worrying about the economy and our family life. So it was alarming this week to find out that the one place we shouldn’t have to worry about because we will get help there presents the biggest worry of all.

Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc sounded the alarm on cancer tests performed on women for breast cancer may not be accurate after the release of a damning report. At a time when breast cancer is one of the top cancers that kill women it’s very disturbing that this may have been going on for up to two years. With the deserved public uproar, the minister wants to quell the fears with saying this study has been well done and the breast cancer testing problems were just a result of what happens with different labs.

If you are sitting at home and you know you are one of those women who’ve been tested in the past couple of years in Quebec for breast cancer that explanation isn’t enough.

Now we learn that that up to 30 percent of the testing was flawed. That’s a huge number when you consider that at least 6,000 women are diagnosed annually with breast cancer and 1400 die of it.

Depending on the type of health coverage you have, when you are on a budget you need to know that you are getting the right medical diagnosis and your life isn’t being endangered with shoddy testing.

Stop the cover-ups and give the women of Quebec an apology and the proper health care that is deserved.