Ruby, 18, died after her tumours were missed SEVEN times by SIX doctors. That's why the teen cancer death toll is rising because so many GPs dismiss these key warning signs..
. By Andrew Beaven For The Mail On Sunday Published: 11:47, 6 October 2024 | Updated: 11:47, 6 October 2024 e-mail View comments It is a question any parent would dread to even consider. But as she sat face-to-face with the GP, Ruby Fuller’s mother summoned all of her courage and asked the doctor outright: ‘Could it be cancer ?’ For weeks, her daughter – a normally fit and lively 17-year-old – had been becoming more unwell, with a growing list of troubling symptoms.
Repeatedly they had made appointments with doctor after doctor at the local surgery. And repeatedly they had been told the teenager was just ‘under the weather’, stressed, or suffering from allergies. But with every passing day, Ruby’s mother Emma Jones was becoming increasingly convinced something far more sinister was affecting her daughter’s health.
In desperation, she googled Ruby’s symptoms: shoulder pain, tiredness and swollen face. The search results were terrifying. Ruby Fuller died in May 2020, ten months after her initial diagnosis A family photo shows Ruby’s raised lymph node on her neck Yet the response when Emma dared to ask if her worst fears could be true highlights a shocking failure in the way the health service treats children and young people.
Laughing off the very suggestion of cancer, no doubt in an a.
