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Mum's rare cancer missed by doctors for over two years - and by then it was too late
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mirror.co.ukA rare type of cancer was missed by one mother's doctors for more than two years - and by then it was too late to save her. Now Colette Jervis' widower has pleaded for lessons to be learned.
Colette, from Manchester, was diagnosed with thymoma, a rare malignant tumour of the thymus gland, in November 2012, reports the Manchester Evening News.
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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