Oncologist denies blame in woman’s cancer death

Shenelle Orlanna Chance

The grieving mother of a 31-year-old woman who passed away recently from cervical cancer believes that the treatment she received at the Cancer Institute of Guyana caused her death, but the attending physician says all was done to save the young woman’s life.

Shenelle Orlanna Chance died on March 2, exactly one year after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer and while her mother Maxine Wilson stated that she was diagnosed with stage one cancer, Dr Sayan Chakraborty, Medical Director and Consultant Oncologist at the institute said she was diagnosed in stage 2 B, meaning the cancer was progressing to stage 3.

“There is a hole in my heart, it could never be filled. It is still hard on me as a mother to see my young vibrant daughter deteriorate in such a short period,” the mother told the Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview.