The article in Tuesday’s Oxford Mail (Cancer patients waiting too long for treatment) was brilliant.

Thank you for calling attention to the problem of delays and to the general negligence regarding prostate cancer.

It does seem like a form of sexism on the part of the ORH to give far more attention to breast cancer than to prostate cancer, as if men’s health counts for little.

I was shocked to read of Mr Lord’s story. My own experience was totally different.

Diagnosed in late November at the Horton, I was given a biopsy in late December, and underwent surgery for prostate cancer in early January 2008.

I count myself very fortunate indeed to have received rapid treatment. And the follow-up at the Churchill was brilliant.

So I am disappointed to learn that now there are unacceptable delays.

It is not right that anyone with a serious life-threatening cancer should have to wait so long for an operation.

J BREEN, Finstock, Witney