Inquest proceedings working out how a young mum from Bolton came to die at a music festival opened yesterday (December 11).
24.11.2023 - 07:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A woman has told of her shock after she was informed via email that she had cancer - just days after being told that there were no follow-up appointments available following her scans.
Jennifer Keane only just turned 40 last month, but had been troubled by breast cancer symptoms since late summer. The structural engineer went to her GP who referred her on to the Nightingale Centre, the diagnostic and treatment centre for breast cancer at Wythenshawe Hospital.
Jennifer, from Disley, attended her appointment for a mammogram and ultrasound scan, but after being told by clinicians to book a follow up appointment in two weeks, she was then informed by receptionists that there were none available in that timeframe. Two days after Jennifer's scans, she says she received an email containing a letter from the Nightingale Centre to her GP - detailing that her scan images were labelled with codes denoting cancer.
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The hospital has apologised 'for the distress this has caused', saying 'patient care is our top priority and we endeavour to deliver sensitive news directly to patients from a member of the clinical team'.
“My symptoms properly started between July and August, but I didn’t think much of it. I didn’t notice a lump, the first symptom I had was my nipple becoming so sensitive, nothing could touch it – I had to put cotton rounds in a soft crop top to wear and it was still unbearable," Jennifer told the Manchester Evening News.
“Then I started having swelling in my breast and stabbing
Inquest proceedings working out how a young mum from Bolton came to die at a music festival opened yesterday (December 11).
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