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Dad-of-three diagnosed with brain tumour he says doctors missed for 12 years
Wales Onine ^ | 19 SEP 2022 | Reem Ahmed

Posted on 09/19/2022 3:57:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 09/19/2022 3:57:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Nice summay


2 posted on 09/19/2022 4:03:13 PM PDT by TexasGator ( Gator in Florids)
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That’s why I always take off my tin foil hat when getting a brain scan.


3 posted on 09/19/2022 4:09:22 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone.)
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Some brain cancers grow as a thin membrane. Very hard to detect. Can you sue doctors in Great Britain?


4 posted on 09/19/2022 4:10:30 PM PDT by ladyjane
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TWELVE years? A friend of mine died from glioblastoma. From diagnoses to death in only two weeks. He worked for UPS and one day was acting confused, two weeks later he was dead leaving a wife and kid.


5 posted on 09/19/2022 4:10:34 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: BobL

Do you take the tin foil hat off the cat too? That’s pretty risky.


6 posted on 09/19/2022 4:11:50 PM PDT by ladyjane ( )
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“Ben Jones, 37, said that doctors at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil failed to spot his tumour on multiple brain scans as far back as 2010”

We have made great strides in the medical field yet we are still quite primitive in being able to detect these things.

People in the future will have the advantages of devices being able to instantly tell if something is wrong and then repair it. Of course those people may also have to deal with extreme forms of socialism, less freedom and who knows what else.


7 posted on 09/19/2022 4:12:07 PM PDT by plain talk
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ALl the classic symptoms of brain cancer were present in the patient, yet they still didn’t diagnose him properly till many years later. Doctors can also take too much for granted. I have known people with overlooked diagnosis.

The doctors may have taken a quick look at Ben, the patient, and seen what appeared to be a healthy young adult male.
But the fact that he was experiencing pain and multiple seizures daily should have been a clue that something was dreadfully wrong. I don’t think this fellow has many years left as a fully functioning individual. There is always a chance that some therapy will be found to stop the growth of this tumor. I wish him well. The 6K GoFundMe will not go very far, but something beats having nothing in savings.


8 posted on 09/19/2022 4:12:45 PM PDT by lee martell ( )
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Incompetent radiologists and doctors, EVERY TIME FOR YEARS!

This is why you need to be on top of your own health and treatment. Get second opinions or change up your doctor or even hospital.

There is no excuse for this!


9 posted on 09/19/2022 4:14:15 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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He should be able to sue.


10 posted on 09/19/2022 4:14:18 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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“Do you take the tin foil hat off the cat too? That’s pretty risky.”

Agree, depends on the situation.


11 posted on 09/19/2022 4:14:22 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: ladyjane

Yes, I looked it up.


12 posted on 09/19/2022 4:15:00 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Yet the doctor that did the last scan told him the growth was detectable on each of his brain scans.


13 posted on 09/19/2022 4:15:51 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Happens all the time due to this reason : )

The Simpsons - Crayon in Homer’s brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWiT4jT1NWU


14 posted on 09/19/2022 4:23:30 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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Wow. Scary. Was he lucid during those two weeks?


15 posted on 09/19/2022 4:31:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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No, he just got progressively worse then lapsed into a coma, it was horrifying. Before that I had no idea cancer could grow that fast. Never waste a day, it can all end tomorrow.


16 posted on 09/19/2022 4:33:03 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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What does Taboola have to do with brain tumors and seizures anyway?

17 posted on 09/19/2022 4:35:21 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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“A dad-of-three has been diagnosed with a brain tumour that he says was missed by doctors for 12 years. Ben Jones, 37, from Merthyr Tydfil said doctors at Prince Charles Hospital failed to spot his tumour on multiple brain scans, first in 2010 and then 2014.”

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Let me think. Was there something that happened just before 2010 that suddenly made the medical profession a slave to the “coding” while ignoring the symptoms of the patient they were supposed to be examining, and whose test results they were supposed to be diagnosing?


18 posted on 09/19/2022 4:40:23 PM PDT by CFW
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“ALl the classic symptoms of brain cancer were present in the patient, yet they still didn’t diagnose him properly till many years later. “

Years? I guess you missed this part:

” Ben decided to seek medical help this year after he started having up to 30 seizures a day.”


19 posted on 09/19/2022 4:42:07 PM PDT by TexasGator ( Gator in Florids)
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“TWELVE years”

What is your point?


20 posted on 09/19/2022 4:42:48 PM PDT by TexasGator ( Gator in Florids)
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