OET Speaking Card 5

Profession: Medicine

Card Type: Breaking Bad News

Description:

Your patient is a 49-year-old accountant, married with two children. He/she presented three weeks ago with a one-month history of rectal bleeding, diarrhoea and 2kg weight loss. You requested a colonoscopy and today the patient is returning for the results. Unfortunately, the patient has a tumour in the descending colon and the biopsy result confirms cancer.