A Bristol dad was hospitalised with cancer eight years after he was checked for the disease and given the all clear. Istvan Babits, a nurse from Kingswood, was hospitalised in January of this year, and doctors found an aggressive melanoma which had spread to his liver, spleen and lymph nodes.
But his wife Timea says that in 2014, Istvan had surgery to remove a melanoma from his neck, and after a year of being taken to hospital for checks he was told that it was nothing to worry about. "We had no problems before but suddenly our life has collapsed," Timea told Bristol Live.
It all started on Boxing Day in 2021, when Istvan started to say that he had a bloated belly. The 46-year-old couldn't eat, so he contacted his GP but was reportedly told that he didn't need to worry, and the doctor told him he would book him in to check for a gallstone problem.
