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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Susie Beever

Woman lost an eye to deadly brain tumour which GP fobbed off as 'attention seeking'

A woman turned away by a GP for being an 'attention seeker' has told how she was then diagnosed with a deadly brain tumour which resulted in her losing an eye.

When Vikki Hindley went to see her doctor complaining of headaches and nausea, she was fobbed off as faking an eating disorder for attention.

But scans went on to show the then 16-year-old had squamous cell carcinoma, which had spread to the frontal lobe of her brain.

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