An Essex mother of a three-year-old boy diagnosed with a rare brain tumour has said three separate GP visits misdiagnosed her son’s cancer as infections before he was rushed to A&E.
Emily Cable, 30, a former retail worker, said her son Frank first presented with fatigue and irritability in April 2024, aged one. This progressed to breathlessness within two weeks, so he was taken to a private GP who said it was a chest infection and prescribed a five-day course of antibiotics.
