Sherwin Hall died of cancer.
Perhaps the young father would still be alive under other circumstances.
Sherwin Hall, 28, from Leeds
died of
cancer
.
Had doctors the
death of the
young father
can prevent?
Hall's partner is convinced of this.
Leeds - Sherwin Hall, 28, from Leeds dies of
cancer in
early December
.
His death could have been prevented.
His partner is convinced of that.
"If you had discovered Sherwin's cancer sooner, he would probably still be alive," said the woman from England to the
British daily "The Mirror".
Wrong diagnosis: young father dies of cancer
The young Brit went to a doctor for the first time in September 2019.
The reason:
pain in the groin area
.
The doctors in charge prescribed antibiotics to Hall.
The complaints subsided.
Then they reappeared in January 2020.
From then on the pain got worse and worse.
The following
symptoms
can indicate cancer:
Palpable
swellings
Hardening or
lumps
on the skin
Pain of
unexplained origin
Change in the
chest
or testicles
Enlargement of
lymph nodes
in the armpits, groin, or neck
The doctors did not think of
cancer
.
They suspected a sexually transmitted disease.
“I told them it couldn't be, but it didn't matter.
They were so convinced of it that I eventually began to believe myself that I might
have caught
something
in a public toilet,
”Hall wrote on the donation website gofundme.com.
MRI scan reveals a clear cancer diagnosis
The man, who has now died of cancer, asked for an
MRI scan
in April and May
.
But no doctor would have listened to him.
“They told me that I can't have a scan because it's all because of
Corona
down, ”writes Hall.
From April to June significantly fewer people in #RLP went to the #dentist or for #cancer prevention.
Doctors suspect that some of them shied away from direct contact in the practices - for fear of contracting the #coronavirus.
# Covid_19 https://t.co/yZ2t7kCrPo
- SWR Aktuell RP (@SWRAktuellRP) November 19, 2020
The young father did
not
get the
magnetic resonance tomography
until the end of May - with a clear diagnosis of cancer: a
malignant tumor
in the pelvis, 30 more tumors in the lungs.
Father dies of cancer - his partner is devastated
Only a few months after the diagnosis, it was clear that the doctors could do nothing more for the young man.
"
I'm devastated,
" the "Mirror" quotes his partner.
"I've lost the
love of my life
."
Diagnosing and treating
cancer will
continue to be a priority
during the
corona pandemic
, assured a spokeswoman for the
UK Ministry of Health
.
"We ask people to report when they have symptoms." (Jan Wendt)
In the USA, on the other hand, a woman's cancer diagnosis was recognized early - she found out about it via Instagram: Because an attentive viewer had noticed something with a TV presenter - a doctor later confirmed the diagnosis.
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