To Dubai for diagnosis

When Maria Carballo recently returned to her job with an airline in the United Arab Emirates, she felt fortunate. Her tests after completing treatment for breast cancer had shown that she was free of the disease. She also felt that she had made the right decision to choose not Dubai for her therapy but a specialized oncology center in her home city, Madrid, where she said counselling was excellent, she felt safe, and all care was provided under one roof. Maria, an expat living with her family in Dubai, had been diagnosed with breast cancer at a check-up she took in the emirate, but the ordeal of having a cancer diagnosis was made more challenging by a disjointed experience with doctors. “I was sent all over the place in Dubai to take tests and some of the tests were sent abroad. Then there was no continuous care by one doctor