Fatal Misdiagnosis Doctors considered bone cancer a sports injury

Did 33-year-old die because of wrong diagnosis? - Bone cancer detected too late
Again and again, medical misdiagnosis cause a great sensation. One wonders then how it could come to it, whether it was due to the overload of the doctors? In some cases, incorrect diagnoses can be corrected again. But not with a young Englishwoman. She died of bone cancer at age 33. Doctors considered her complaints a sports injury.

33-year-old Englishwoman dies of bone cancer
Medical mistakes can dramatically change the lives of patients. When medics bother you often wonder if it is the overload or the sloppy approach. It is bad if doctors do not want to see their mistakes or cover them up. When it was recently reported that a doctor in Switzerland was removing all breasts from a patient without indication, he initially claimed that the procedure had been necessary in this way. Only after months did the gynecologist concede the momentous mistake. Kaley Fitzsimmons from Birmingham died of bone cancer at age 33. Physicians initially considered their complaints to be the result of a sports injury.

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Bone cancer initially held for "athletic overload"
The Englishwoman had to undergo a kidney transplant at a younger age. Just two years ago she became pregnant for the first time and gave birth to a healthy girl. But her daughter Gracie has to grow up without her birth mother. Kaley died when her child was only one year old. As the portal reports, the fitness trainer got three months after birth violent pain in her leg. Doctors who visited the woman referred to them as "athletic overload". The newly minted mother was then prescribed by various physicians physiotherapy. But seven months after her daughter was born, an MRI scan revealed that Kaley was suffering from a malignant tumor. The diagnosis was osteosarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer that can cause severe bone pain and hip pain. She received chemo and her right leg was amputated. But the fight against cancer came too late.

Life-saving measures came too late
"I felt drained because I know my body. I'm not the one who goes to the doctor, though nothing is serious. And I felt that the whole thing was not taken seriously, "Kaley told" Mail Online "before her death. Regarding the situation after the amputation, she said, "For three days I could not look at my body, but in the end I was just happy to be alive for my little girl." However, the life-saving operation came too late. The cancer had now spread to the patient, who was still suffering from severe pain, and attacked her lungs. A cure was no longer possible. "If I had received this diagnosis on time, my treatment might have been successful and my family would not have to go through it now. Please, I implore all physicians to consider possible alternatives and not to dismiss as postpartum complaints when a newly minted mother has unexpected pain. "(Ad)