Megan Royle, 33, was told she had cancer and received treatment, only to find two years later she had been misdiagnosed
She has won compensation from the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the pathology service used by Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, as both misinterpreted her results, leading to the misdiagnosis in 2019.Megan Royle’s arm after surgeons operated, believing she had skin cancer
“I spent two years believing I had cancer, went through all the treatment and then was told there had been no cancer at all.” After she had nine treatment cycles up to May 2021, and after being told there was no sign of the disease, she moved North as the lockdown had prevented her from working in the theatre.She said: “When the doctors sat me down and told me it took a while to sink in.