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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Douglas Whitbread & Kieren Williams

Family furious as teen daughter dies of cancer after 'waiting a year to see GP'

A teenage girl who died of doctors had waited for more than a year to see her GP, her family claim.

Amelia Ellerby, 19, passed away within just weeks of her diagnosis after pleading with doctors to take her concerns seriously when a lump the size of a 50p appeared on her lower back in February last year.

She was prescribed antibiotics, says her aunt, Claire Hanshaw, even after lodging distressed calls with her local practice - the Priory Medical Centre in York - every six weeks.

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