A man has claimed that his fatal cancer was missed repeatedly when a GP refused to order him a blood test, telling him that "tests cost the NHS money".
Geoff Duke, 50, was eventually - after changing GPs - diagnosed with myeloma. This is a lethal form of blood cancer which kills 3,000 people in the UK each year.
Geoff, from Washington, Sunderland, is now in remission, but still has to take a vast cocktail of medications, and is now calling on the UK Government to ensure that GPs now know more about myeloma.
