Mr Peakman Mr Peakman was a surgeon based at Weatherfield General who diagnosed and treated Hayley Cropper after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer . After discovering a tumour , Mr Peakman recommended two surgical procedures . The first was an endoscopic procedure to unblock her bile duct , the second a pancreatoduodenectomy ( Whipple Procedure ) to remove the tumour . Following the successful first procedure , Hayley was discharged from the hospital . Her husband Roy however was unsatisfied at the lack of urgency Mr Peakman was putting on the case and showed up unannounced at the hospital demanding to see him . The Secretary gently informed Roy that Mr Peakman had numerous other cases to deal with and that he would be in touch soon . Roy was having none of this and angrily demanded that he would not leave until he had spoken to Mr Peakman . Upon hearing Roy shouting , Peakman came out of his office to investigate . Instead of sending him away , he agreed to give Roy five minutes on the condition that he stopped causing a disturbance . Once inside the office Roy bombarded him with information he had found off the internet . Mr Peakman however warned Roy to be cautious of material on the internet and stated he would be going by what he knew worked . In addition he stated the confidentiality legislation meant that he could not talk about Hayley ' s treatment without her being present . Roy left his office more disgruntled than when he first arrived . The evening before Hayley was due to undergo the operation to remove the tumour , Mr Peakman reminded Hayley what the whipple procedure would involve , more specifically if the tumour allowed they would be moving the head of the pancreas , the gallbladder and the duodenum . Hayley was scheduled for surgery in the morning ; however it was put back as Mr Peakman had an emergency case to deal with . Once he was finished he visited Hayley ' s room saying that the surgery had been complicated but successful . Hayley was taken to surgery later that day . She was told that if the tumour could be removed she would in theatre for over six hours . If it could not be removed she would be in for less time . She was wheeled into theatre just after 1 . 00pm . Mr Peakman emerged from the operating theatre at 5 . 20pm . Roy was confused as Hayley had not been in surgery long enough for the operation to be a success , but not short enough for it to be a total failure . Mr Peakman gently informed Roy that it was not possible to remove the tumour . Later on once Hayley was back on the ward , he gave her and Roy and more detailed briefing of why the surgery was not successful . It turned out that the tumour had infiltrated the hepatic portal vein , which is the major blood vessel supplying blood to the liver ; damaging or removing the portal vein would inevitably prove fatal to the patient . Given this situation he informed them that Hayley ' s cancer was incurable and that with chemotherapy she had approximately a year left to live . A month later , Hayley was admitted back into hospital when she contracted a fever and was kept in for several weeks although Mr Peakman admitted that they didn ' t know the exact cause . He changed her antibiotics as the ones he was giving her didn ' t seem to be working but her progress was slow . List of appearances . 2013