A mother who was diagnosed with lung cancer was initially sent home by an A&E doctor with antibiotics and being told her CT scan was "clear".
The tragic news came after Victoria, from Great Wyrley in Staffordshire, lost her grandfather in December and told how her persistent cough had friends concerned before she visited accident and emergency at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton. "It was 10pm at night and there were 172 people waiting to be seen so I said I didn't want to stay, I didn't feel like I needed to. A lady told us to come back the following morning when it was quieter.
Top news stories today "I told him what happened and he said that he'd check it all for me. Because it was my five-year check, I would have been discharged if he didn't find any issues. He went off and came in and told me that the CT scan I had on New Year's Eve in A&E wasn't clear and there were shadows on my lungs and liver.
"I have a line for my treatment, which he sees and he knows what it does. But as for the actual cancer, I don't talk about it in front of him.