A distraught daughter has accused the NHS of ‘failing’ her cancer-stricken mother after they ‘sent her home with paracetamol’.
Marie Stibbe, 79, who has retired in Tiverton, Devon, was diagnosed with liver cancer at the start of March after she experienced ‘legs so itchy she couldn’t sleep and was finding life very hard’.
A blood test revealed she had suddenly developed diabetes – another symptom of late-stage liver cancer – and wrongly suggested she had ovarian cancer.
But it was a month later that the liver disease was confirmed with a CT scan and a further three months passed before Marie started treatment, by
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