A young woman with cancer has said she waited so long for treatment for her tumour that it had almost tripled in size by the time it was removed.
Kayleigh McLean had initially thought a lump she discovered in her throat could have been related to covid but had it checked out after she began struggling to swallow. The 24-year-old was told after an ultrasound that it was in fact a solid mass measuring 3cm.
She was referred to the ear, nose and throat department at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. Kayleigh, who lives in Campbeltown, with her husband Eli, 28, and step-daughter Eve, 10, was told she’d be seen within a fortnight last November but it took until January before she had a biopsy at Glasgow’s Gartnavel Hospital, reports the Daily Record.
