direct to your inboxAn NHS trust has paid damages to the family of a woman who died after a rare type of cancer went undiagnosed for two and a half years.Now Colette Jervis' widower has pleaded for lessons to be learned.
Colette, from Stretford, was diagnosed with thymoma, a rare malignant tumour of the thymus gland, in November 2012. Four days later, she was told by a consultant the thymoma had been present on an X-ray carried out at Trafford General Hospital two-and-a-half years previously but remained undiagnosed at that time.
Although thymoma can be cancerous, it is often benign and can have no symptoms. Colette initially sought medical advice with a persistent cough in 2010 but the thymoma was not spotted by doctors.
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