Rebecca Gibson continued to contact her GP about her symptoms but was told that she could have internal piles
A mum-of-two has been diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer - five years after first visiting the GP about her symptoms.
"I kept flagging my symptoms and concerns and pushing for an urgent coloscopy. I’d been begging for years but not once had I been referred. Rebecca, from Manchester, was initially told her cancer was inoperable but started chemotherapy. However surgeons removed the tumour and Rebecca's ovaries, as the cancer had spread, last summer.
Rebecca has had palliative chemotherapy but as it hasn't had much effect, her family have sent up a GoFundMe page to fund a drug that's not available on the NHS. Rebecca has now instructed lawyers at Irwin Mitchell to investigate whether more could have been done to diagnose her cancer sooner. Specialist medical negligence lawyer Shahin Master hopes to provide Rebecca with 'the answers she deserves.'
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