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Benjamin Roberts-Haslam & Nisha Mal

'One of the hardest things anyone can go through' Mum's nose removed after doctors misdiagnosed her with sinusitis

A mum was forced to have her nose removed after doctors thought she has sinusitis. Katie Froggatt began feeling pain in her nose in June 2021 and went to see her GP.

At first they told her it was down to sinusitis and she was put on antibiotics. But months later she went back to her doctors and they found what looked like polyps in her nose.

Sadly, Katie, who loved ones describe as being the "bubbliest person you will ever meet", was then diagnosed with sinus cancer. Nicola Patterson, her best friend of 25 years, said: "From June to December she just got put on antibiotics and thought she had polyps.

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