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Surgeons bid for medical first: Removing spinal tumor through patient’s eye
Karla Flores had a tumor strangling her spinal cord near the base of her skull. Doctors weighed whether they should attempt a ...
‘Athletic’ woman dies of bone cancer after lower back pain was misdiagnosed
A once “fit and healthy” 25-year-old woman, whose lower back pain was initially misdiagnosed, died from bone cancer less than a year after a tumour was finally discovered in her pelvis. At such a ...
‘It’s just total and utter heartbreak’: Q Radio presenter raises £30,000 in four days for niece battling rare bone cancer
A Q Radio presenter has raised over £30,000 in just four days after her family got the “heart-breaking” news that her ...
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Co Derry dad opens up after two-year-old twin girl's rare cancer diagnosis
Myla was given her MRI and a tumour was discovered at the base of her spine. Biopsy results showed, with 99% certainty, that it is a form of bone cancer known as Ewing's Sarcoma. Robin's sister ...
Athletic woman, 25, whose back pain was diagnosed with sciatica dies 10 months later from bone cancer
Kate Drummond's devastated family believe things 'could have been slightly different had she been diagnosed sooner' ...
'My sister's only cancer symptom was terrifyingly easy to miss - it killed her at just 25'
When 'fit and healthy' Kate Drummond began experiencing back pain, doctors misdiagnosed her with sciatica, not realising that ...
Cancer killed my fit and healthy sister, 26, just ten months after she was diagnosed - her only symptom was terrifyingly easy to dismiss
A grief-stricken sister has told of doctors' multiple failings to spot the bone cancer that killed her 'kind, considerate and warm' sister at just 26-years-old.
Woman, 25, dies from bone cancer after doctors initially thought it was sciatica
Kate Drummond, from Devon, was found to have a grapefruit-sized tumour in her pelvis after seeking an MRI scan privately, and ...
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Woman, 25, dies as back pain 'misdiagnosed as sciatica' before shock diagnosis
A 25-year-old who tragically died from bone cancer was ... began to decline, a spinal physiotherapist became concerned with her symptoms, leading Kate to seek a private MRI scan that revealed ...
Young Woman Dies After Lower Back Pain Due to Bone Cancer Was Misdiagnosed As Sciatica; What Is Ewing Sarcoma?
A 25-year-old athletic woman dies of a rare bone cancer less than a year after her condition of constant back pain was misdiagnosed as sciatica. Kate Drummond, a fitness enthusiast who used to run ...
Woman, 25, who had back pain 'from exercise' died year after diagnosis
After the pain radiated to her hip, Kate was diagnosed with “probable sciatica” after visiting the A&E department of her local hospital in Devon in May 2021 – and Kelly said it was noted she was “one ...