A father of three has been diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour that he claims doctors repeatedly failed to pick up on for 12 years. Ben Jones, 37, from Merthyr Tydfil said he had been for multiple brain scans at the Prince Charles Hospital in 2010 and 2014 and doctors were unable to identify his tumour.
After years of suffering with pain, Ben began to have up to 30 seizures per day which led him to the decision to seek further medical help again this year. Doctors finally recognised the growth on a scan at the hospital in July, Wales Online reports.
Ben was transferred to another hospital for specialist care where he was shockingly informed by doctors that his tumour had been detectable throughout all of his scans, since his first one 12 years ago. The mass, which began on one part of the brain, has since spread to three parts of his brain and he will undergo major surgery in October to remove as much of it as possible.
