A woman who was initially told a pain in her leg was a muscle strain was forced to have her leg amputated just three months later.
Gemma Harrison was told by doctors that the pain in her leg was nothing more than a muscle strain before being sent home with muscle rub and painkillers, but when she found a lump on her left thigh she went back to the hospital where they sent her for tests. After a number of tests and scans, it was found that the 34-year-old had an extremely rare form of bone cancer called osteosarcoma.
Following the diagnosis, she underwent intense chemotherapy in an attempt to shrink the lump but during the treatment, her leg snapped. This ruined plans to replace part of her leg with a metal rod and forced the specialist's hand into amputating the leg from the hip down to ensure the cancer wouldn't spread across her body.
