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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Charlotte Hadfield

Matalan worker had leg removed after doctor told her she had 'growing pains'

A Matalan worker lost her leg to cancer after being told she had growing pains as a child.

Megan Squire, from Maghull, was eleven years old when she started suffering from fatigue and pain in her right leg. After being taken back to see her GP repeatedly by her mum, Dianne, Megan was told she had growing pains.

But when the pain continued for the following six months, Megan was referred for a scan which revealed the devastating news she had a form of bone cancer called Ewing sarcoma.

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