A woman who was dismissed by her GP as an "attention seeker" was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Vikki Hindley, 41, was turned away by her GP before being diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour which caused her to lose an eye.
Vikki, who was just 16 at the time, was eventually diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma which had spread to the frontal lobe of her brain. She said: "“I’d been suffering from headaches and nausea; I couldn’t study or eat and I was losing so much weight.
''I went to the GP but I was told I was ‘fine’. I went several times, and the GP told my mum I was anorexic and was attention seeking.
“I couldn’t believe it. I thought ‘are you joking?’ I wasn’t too bothered at the time as I was young and naïve but as I’ve got older, the way I was treated has made me angry.”
