Some patients opt to pay for U.S. cancer screening, even as new B.C. program seeks to alleviate backlog

West Vancouver resident Leah Rowntree had to wait a month for an ultrasound scan in B.C. after she discovered a lump in her breast, but it wasn't until she made a trip to the U.S. and had an MRI there that she learned it was a lot more serious than she'd been told.