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27.02.2024 - 09:49 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mum who took her baby to hospital with a common complaint but was dismissed and sent home has helped launch a campaign after her daughter was later diagnosed with an extremely serious medical condition.
Megan Mulholland spotted blood in her nine-month-old daughter's eye and took her to A&E after it started to get worse. But, when she got baby Nuala to hospital, her eye started to bulge out of its socket.
Liverpool Echo reports that, despite this, Megan and nine-month-old Nuala were sent home without a diagnosis. So, mum Megan phoned the ophthalmology department herself and got a next-day referral - where baby Nuala was diagnosed with a rare cancer.
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Megan said: "I was told it was likely a subconjunctival haemorrhage, a benign eye condition that would clear on its own. I can see why that diagnosis was made, you just never suspect cancer."
Doctors in Liverpool moved fast when the tumour was discovered at the back of Nuala Mulholland’s left eye on an urgent MRI scan but, due to the rare nature of Nuala’s tumour, it took a further eight weeks to formally diagnose her with an alveolar soft tissue sarcoma. Only six people per year are diagnosed with this cancer in England.
Megan added: "The ophthalmologists were incredible; as soon as they suspected something, they moved quickly. But it had taken three weeks for us to get to this point.
"It’s much longer for some parents of children with sarcoma. It was initially thought that the tumour was a rhabdomyosarcoma, but this was ruled out, and eventually, after eight weeks, it was confirmed to be
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