One of Britain's leading young scientists battling a rare heart cancer has been given just months left to live - after doctors thought she'd just pulled a muscle. Kirsty Smitten, 28, is a “world leading” scientist set to potentially save tens of millions of lives with her new antibiotic medicine.
She was named a Forbes under 30 scientist and last month was crowned FSB's Young Entrepreneur of the Year. But she said her terminal diagnosis has turned her life upside down.
Her cancer, cardiac angiosarcoma, is so rare her surgeon had never seen it before and only two people are diagnosed with it a year n the UK. And she said when she first arrived at A&E in November last year with severe heart pain she was sent away by the GP who told her to take codeine for a pulled muscle.
