A young man died of a misdiagnosed cancer

A young man from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland died of cancer a few weeks after marrying his partner and after becoming a father. His wife claims that "he did not have a chance" to survive because the doctors gave him a bad diagnosis – appendicitis.

Tom Thornton, 25, He was the victim of several errors during his treatment at the NHS Trust of Pennine Acute Hospitals in Greater Manchester.

These errors, revealing Tom Thornton's wife, have been committed since August 2014 since her first admission. at the North Manchester General Hospital, and until his death in January 2015. He first interned accusing abdominal pains that persisted for five days.

Mismanagement and lack of communication with Tom Thornton's family patient, according to an ongoing lawsuit, according to Manchester Evening News.

Tom Thornton's father, Kevin, said "Nobody took seriously" the treatment of his son

Thornton, who was a passionate rugby player, would have had full confidence in the doctors saying to his father: "If they're not worried, I'm not worried either."

The family discovered the wrong diagnosis only after contacting hospital representatives to find out if Tom's illness was hereditary: "I do not think Tom was lucky, that meant everything to me, I would not want it to happen to anyone," said Tom's widow Chantelle.

In his last weeks of life, Tom Thornton asked for Cjantelle's hand, the two got married and became the parents of a boy, Maxwell Joseph – just three weeks before his death

Doctors diagnosed him with appendicitis after an ultrasound Thornton was scheduled for surgery to remove his appendices the next day, but this surgery was postponed.

Professor Matthew Makin, medical director of Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said the postponement of the intervention was documented by doctors, but not the reason – this is one of the earliest examples of Recording poorly documented.

Finally, Thornton's appendix was analyzed in a pathology laboratory at the Royal Oldham Hospital. The doctor who treated this analysis failed to identify the cancer cells and confirmed the diagnosis of appendicitis.

Thornton returned to the hospital after almost two months, accusing the pain of the scar from surgery, but the medical care that he took (19659004) Doctors thought his bowels were trapped in the incision performed during the surgical procedure, and Thornton did further analysis

. year, Thornton was diagnosed with cancer. He did a single chemotherapy session, but cancer was too common in his body. Thornton died on January 28, 2015.