Nice summay
That’s why I always take off my tin foil hat when getting a brain scan.
Some brain cancers grow as a thin membrane. Very hard to detect. Can you sue doctors in Great Britain?
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.
“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.
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.
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!
He should be able to sue.
Happens all the time due to this reason : )
The Simpsons - Crayon in Homer’s brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWiT4jT1NWU
What does Taboola have to do with brain tumors and seizures anyway?
“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?
Something similar happened to me in 2001 I had an aggressive AN (Acoustic Neuroma) removed after 16 hrs of surgery that destroyed Left hearing, I was released from follow up MRI’s after 5 years, around 2007. Around 2010 I had Bone Conduction Implant installed and as part of that was a routine MRI. The MRI showed lots of scar tissue and so the Radiologists misread or couldn’t see the new tumor forming. In late 2020 started having very extreme pain in my lower jaw so the Dental Surgeon did an x-ray and saw the new tumor, big as before, little bigger than a golf ball but this one had wrapped around many facial nerves, so it was inoperable so only choice was Gamma Knife radiation which I had 5 treatments from Dec 2021 to Jan 2022. Luckily it is now dissolving slowly and doing ok for the most part. Acoustic Neuroma’s are noncancerous as they kill with pressure.
I had something key missed on a CT scan. Thankfully, the missed masses didn’t turn out to be cancer.
I strongly suggest second opinions on imaging in certain circumstances.