Yorkshire Woman Misdiagnosed With Cancer For Two Years, Receives Compensation (image:twitter/Hudgell Solicitors)

A woman from East Yorkshire, United Kingdom was wrongly diagnosed with cancer and underwent treatment awarded compensation. She says, it “took a while to sink in.”

Megan Royle, 33, a make-up artist was diagnosed with melanoma – a type of skin cancer in 2019.

When she reported concerns about a growing mole on her upper arm and turning itchy and scabbed, Ms Royle was referred by her General Practitioner for a dermatology review at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 2019.

A biopsy was carried out and then Ms Royle was told that she had been identified with melanoma.

Subsequently, she was referred to the specialist cancer unit at The Royal Marsden Hospital in London, which confirmed the diagnosis and had the “cancer” and surrounding tissue surgically removed.

She underwent a total of nine cycles of immunotherapy treatment between February 2020 and May 2021 and was recommended egg preservation as it could impact on her fertility.

It was when another hospital trust reviewed Ms Royle”s file and scans, the misdiagnosis was found out.

She said: “When the doctors sat me down and told me it took a while to sink in. You’d think the immediate emotion would be relief, and in some sense it was, but I’d say the greater emotions were frustration and anger,” BBC reports.

“I wasn”t in a good place for quite some time, to be honest, strange as that may seem,” Ms Royle added.

Succeeding a legal representation by Hudgell Solicitors, Ms Royle has won compensation through out of court settlement by Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

A spokesperson from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust said: “We wish to offer our sincere apologies to Megan Royle for the distress caused by her experience at our trust and we are pleased that a settlement has been agreed,” BBC reports.