It was Katie Constable’s 50th birthday when doctors delivered the life-changing news that her 17-year-old son Jack had a rare cancer – just months after he’d been told by a GP nurse that it was nothing but a pulled muscle.
Teenage boy was told his tumour was just a pulled muscle - now it’s terminal Eight weeks after he had seen his GP nurse Jack’ Constable’s tumour had grown to the size of a watermelon.
She lifted Jack’s shirt she didn’t even touch him or examine him and within two minutes we were out she said ‘oh it’s just a pulled muscle don’t do anything and if it doesn’t go down come back in eight weeks’.
This month new research revealed early onset bowel cancer in those aged 25 to 49 is increasing globally, but England is among the countries with the biggest rise, averaging a 3.6 per cent increase every year.
However, NHS clinicians speaking with The Independent have said the sharp rise is worrying and will require the government to shift its approach to cancer diagnosis.
