Woman who was sent home by doctors with antibiotics is diagnosed with ovarian CANCER

A woman who arrived at hospital with agonising abdominal pain was sent home with antibiotics - only to receive a preliminary cancer diagnosis at a different hospital hours later.

Joy Vivien Lee, 61, was rushed to A&E at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary (HRI) on January 14, where she spent hours lying on hard waiting-room seats.

When Ms Lee was finally seen, her family claim a doctor did not have the equipment needed to properly investigate her symptoms and discharged her with a cannula - plastic tube that delivers drugs and fluids directly into the vein - still in her arm.

Once home in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, Ms Lee soon rang 999 again, convinced she was dying.

This time paramedics took her to Pinderfields General Hospital in Wakefield, where doctors discovered signs of ovarian cancer that may have spread to her bones.

Speaking of Ms Lee's symptoms, her brother Mark Oldham-Fox said: 'She's lost two stone in weight since the end of October and hasn't been able to eat.

'She's had stomach and lower back pains, and bloating - she has said she looks nine months pregnant.'

While Ms Lee was assessed at Pinderfields, CT scans also revealed she had a dark shadow on her breast - another sign her suspected cancer has spread. 

Ms Lee had visited the hospital before Christmas concerned about her pain, only to be told it was likely gastrointestinal related and not serious.  






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