Anecdotal, but not unusual.
Two years ago last July Mrs. Dawg was having serious trouble catching her breath. Diagnosis was walking pneumonia. I called BS, but we had a 10 trip to Vancouver Island planned. Before we returned, she got the point she couldn’t walk 20 feet without pausing to catch her breath.
When we got home, went through a second round of imaging and docs “found” a cancerous lump the size of tennis ball obstructing air flow to her left and impeding blood flow returning to her heart.
She was already Stage III at this point. Docs prescribed chemo and radiation- standard protocol for the type and severity of her cancer. That was the end of July.
Wellcare spent two months granting approval. She passed October 8 after cardiac arrest brought on by cancer.
Not sure it would have made a difference in the final outcome, but ….I’ll never know for sure.