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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Thomas

Mother of two faces terminal cancer after nearly 10 years of misdiagnosis by the NHS

Sarah Roch

A woman is battling a terminal cervical cancer diagnosis after an NHS trust misdiagnosed her test results as constipation several times.

Sarah Roch, a 43-year-old mother of two from Plymouth, faced nine years of missed opportunities from 2010 by Derriford Hospital and only discovered she had cervical cancer after a voluntary hysterectomy in 2019.

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