Megan Royle, 33, underwent nine cycles of treatment after she was told she had skin cancer, undergoing treatment which affected her fertility for nothing
Megan Royle 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. diagnosis and even had her eggs frozen after having immunotherapy was left in “complete shock” when doctors told her she had been wrongly diagnosed.
Ms Royle, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, said she struggled to understand what had happened, and felt “complete shock”. A biopsy was carried out and reviewed Ms Royle, then aged 29, was told melanoma – a type of skin cancer – had been identified. She was then referred to the specialist cancer unit at The Royal Marsden Hospital. Her biopsy was reviewed and, again, she was told that this confirmed a melanoma. She underwent a 2cm wide excision of tissue to remove the “cancer”.
Ms Royle said: “When the doctors sat me down and told me it took a while to sink in. You’d think the immediate emotion would be relief, and in some sense it was, but I’d say the greater emotions were frustration and anger. “However, then to be told two years later, having undergone the treatment and lived with the worry, I found being told I’d never had cancer at all hard. I wasn’t in a good place for quite some time to be honest, strange as that may seem.”
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