A grief-stricken mum is calling for greater cancer research after her teenage son died after a misdiagnosis. Claire Kavanagh’s son Niall lost his life to a brain tumour - the symptoms of which were initially mistaken for those of an ear infection.
A grief-stricken mother is calling for greater cancer research after her teenage son died afterClaire Kavanagh’s son Niall, 19, lost his life to a brain tumour, the symptoms of which were initially mistaken for those of an ear infection.
He was given the all-clear by doctors, but after his symptoms persisted and worsened over several weeks, Claire, from Newmarket, Suffolk, made him a GP appointment that he never went to.‘He actually went to see out-of-hours doctors at Addenbrooke’s Hospital on two consecutive Saturdays,’ she said. ‘But he was looked over and sent home with a suspected virus or ear infection.’
‘Niall’s brother went over to his house the same day and called to tell me there was something wrong, and he was going to put him to bed,’ Claire explained. He was eventually given a scan which revealed the devastating news that there was a lesion on his brain. Niall did manage to push through for three weeks and was able to talk, use his phone and breathe on his own.‘He was returned to the ICU and when I saw him the following morning, he wasn’t responding like he had before,’ his mum explained.
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