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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Harry Stedman

NHS trust warned of ‘neglect’ after failure to spot patient’s fatal lung cancer

A coroner has warned an NHS trust over its “neglect” of a patient, after failing to identify her fatal cancer sooner, despite monitoring her condition for more than three years.

Anne Lorraine Dyson, 68, died in St Benedict’s Hospice in Sunderland on February 24, after being diagnosed with terminal metastatic lung cancer some four months earlier.

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