From UK DAILY MAIL
Doctors said my son was constipated - in fact, he had CANCER: Mother's fury after doctors missed basketball-sized tumour 11 TIMES as survival odds slashed to 40%
- Doctors told Sharon Woolley her son Charlie, 5, was constipated
- Kept prescribing laxatives even after his symptoms continued to get worse
- Five months after they first appeared he 'looked five months pregnant'
- On 11th visit, doctors finally scanned him and found huge tumour in stomach
- Was so big they couldn’t even see his lungs or liver on the scan
- Delayed diagnosis means his chance of survival has been slashed to 40%
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A mother has spoken of her fury after doctors sent her son home 11 times in five months before discovering a football-sized tumour in his stomach.
Sharon Woolley was told her five-year-old son Charlie was suffering from constipation - when all along he had neuroblastoma, a rare and aggressive cancer with one of the lowest survival rates.
Miss Woolley believes the time delay in diagnosis may now affect whether he survives the disease or not. He has been given a survival rate of less than 40 per cent.
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