An "amazing" mum was handed a devastating diagnosis after enduring months of severe back pain.
Alex Young, 51, from Tranmere, knew the pain was a sign of something more serious, but was unable to get a hospital appointment due to a backlog caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The mum-of-one had been in remission following a breast cancer diagnosis in 2014, however, when she eventually secured an appointment to determine the root of her pain last year, scans revealed the cancer had returned, this time in her liver and bones.
Alex's daughter, Ellisha Branscombe, told the ECHO : "During covid, she knew the cancer had come back but, because it wasn’t diagnosed in time, it became terminal. It was the pain that first made her realise it had come back.
