Man claims fatal cancer was missed by GP who refused him blood test due to NHS costs
dailyrecord.co.ukA man has claimed that his fatal cancer was missed repeatedly when a GP refused to order him a blood test, telling him that "tests cost the NHS money".
Geoff Duke, 50, was eventually - after changing GPs - diagnosed with myeloma. This is a lethal form of blood cancer which kills 3,000 people in the UK each year.
Geoff, from Washington, Sunderland, is now in remission, but still has to take a vast cocktail of medications, and is now calling on the UK Government to ensure that GPs now know more about myeloma.
Geoff, who is a dad-of-four and expecting his second grandchild this year, states that he had gone to the doctor repeatedly struggling with chronic back pain and issues with breathlessness, Chronicle Live reports.However, he says that his GP did not think that there was anything seriously wrong with him and that it took him years and a new GP to be diagnosed.
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