What are people’s experiences with tumour biopsy timeframes?

[Mila-palma]

My dad was recently diagnosed with a grade 4 brain tumour which is too deep to be operated on. The symptoms and diagnosis has come while we were on holiday. The doctors here are telling us that it is urgent for him to have a biopsy so any possible treatment can be started. They can do the biopsy here tomorrow but the travel insurance won’t agree and want to repatriate him to the UK. He will then be taken to his local hospital which doesn’t have the department for this biopsy. My question is what are people’s experience with getting the biopsy? Will it be done ASAP or are we looking at weeks in the UK?

[Shannon_TBTC Partner]

Hi Mila-Palma, sorry to hear about your fathers diagnosis, this must be a really difficult time for your family.We have information on our website about biopsies which can be found- thebraintumourcharity.org/b...

Please do reach out to our support team on 0808 800 0004 should you want to talk about this further with a member of our team. Best wishes,

Shannon