A woman who was branded an 'attention seeker' by her GP, was then later diagnosed with a deadly disease. Vikki Hindley, 41, was turned away from her practice before being delivered the tragic news that she had a cancerous brain tumour.
Doctors diagnosed her with squamous cell carcinoma, which had sadly spread to the frontal lobe of her brain. Manchester Evening News reports that the condition caused Vikki, who was just 16 at the time, to lose an eye.
She said: "I’d been suffering from headaches and nausea; I couldn’t study or eat and I was losing so much weight.
