A mum-of-five with a history of cervical cancer ‘was given laxatives after she went to a doctor with cancer symptoms’ – her family have claimed – before dying six weeks after being officially diagnosed with terminal cancer
A 34-year-old mum-of-five died just six weeks after she was told she had terminal cancer – and five months after she was initially given laxatives for her symptoms, her family have claimed.
Now heartbroken auntie Judith Spence, 51, is raising funds for the funeral of her beloved niece Louise Gemma Gray – who she claims was fobbed off by doctors and prescribed laxatives when she complained of constipation and rectal bleeding.
Louise, who died on November 3, leaves behind her five children, with twins as young as three, and her desperate family are now trying to pick up the pieces.
Angered Judith claims Louise, of Peterlee, County Durham, had told her no tests were carried out when she raised concern about her symptoms with doctors and was prescribed laxatives – despite previously undergoing surgery last year to have cervical cancer cells removed.