A CANCER patient has been told she has to wait for surgery to remove a lethal brain tumour because of the global IT meltdown. Chantelle Mooney, 41, was booked in for major brain surgery last Friday - but says it was cancelled due to the CrowdStrike chaos. CrowdStrike , a cyber security firm used by Microsoft, sent out a faulty virus-defending update that caused Windows computers to crash en masse, affecting office jobs, flights, supermarkets and - more worryingly - hospitals.
Chantelle arrived at Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire , on Friday morning expecting to go into surgery at 10am. But while she was watching TV in the waiting room before being called into theatre, she spotted the news that Microsoft technology was facing outages across the globe. And she says 10 minutes later her surgeon arrived to explain they relied on Microsoft tech for scans, emergency medication, accessing medical records and more.
By 1.30pm, she was told the surgery would not be going ahead and was going to be pushed back to next Friday. Chantelle was diagnosed with stage 4B terminal cervical cancer in February 2022, which is medical speak for cancer that has spread to two or more organs.
In Chantelle's case it had spread to her lungs, and she was told three weeks ago she was told doctors discovered a 4cm mass in her brain. It came after she began to notice weakness down one side. Most read in Health Chantelle, from Great Harwood, Lancashire, said: "I've got a secondary brain tumour - my primary d.